Gahow Wang 0131f05b26 docs: Phase T8 — distributed data parallel ...

Design doc for the NCCL DDP path: comm bootstrap (rank-0 UniqueId + grouped
CommInitRank), thread-per-GPU launch model (Var is !Send), all-reduce-then-
local-step scheme (in-place fp32 AllReduce on .grad() + /world, each rank steps
its own GpuAdamW), why params stay consistent (NCCL bit-identical reduce + same
init/state), batch sharding math vs single-GPU, verification plan + scaling
table. Lists TP/PP/ZeRO/bf16-comm as out-of-scope follow-ups.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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00-build-chain.md

docs: backfill T1 build-chain

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01-tensor.md

docs: Phase T2 — tensor abstraction

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02-gemm-autodiff.md

docs: Phase T3 — GEMM fwd/bwd + finite-diff

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03-autograd-engine.md

docs: Phase T4 — autograd engine

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04-tiny-transformer.md

docs: Phase T5 — tiny transformer

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05-training-loop.md

docs: Phase T6 — training loop

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06-performance.md

docs: Phase T7 — performance

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07-distributed.md

docs: Phase T8 — distributed data parallel

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