* fix RuntimeError of SyncBuffersHook

* add UT

* support mlu

* add ut and refine docstring

* refine sync random seed

* cancel seed param in batch-sampler

* Add profiling tools

* fix docstr

* fix docstr

* update

* fix bug

* update

* update

* fix error

* fix mypy

* uodate

* merge main

* fix UT

* [Fix] Replace torch distributed with mmengine dist module

* minor refinement

* move all_reduce_params to dist.py

* add unit tests

* update unit tests

* fix test_logger.py

* add examples

* [Enhancement] Handle the device type of inputs in functions

* rename and move three fucntions to dist/utils.py

* minor refinement

* rename dist to torch_dist in utils.py

* update unit tests

* refine unit tests

* add unit tests

* fix unit tests

* replace Sequence with list and tuple

* rename get_backend_device to get_comm_device

* fix unit tests

* fix unit tests

* refactor and add more unit tests

* cast_data_device does not support set type

* [Feature] Add distributed module

* fix IS_DIST error

* all_reduce_dict does operations in-place

* support 'mean' operation

* provide local group process

* add tmpdir argument for collect_results

* add unit tests

* refactor unit tests

* simplify steps to create multiple processes

* minor fix

* describe the different of *gather* in mmengine and pytorch

* minor fix

* add unit tests for nccl

* test nccl backend in multiple gpu

* add get_default_group function to handle different torch versions

* minor fix

* [Feature] Add distributed module

* fix IS_DIST error

* all_reduce_dict does operations in-place

* support 'mean' operation

* provide local group process

* add tmpdir argument for collect_results

* add unit tests

* refactor unit tests

* simplify steps to create multiple processes

* minor fix

* describe the different of *gather* in mmengine and pytorch

* minor fix

* add unit tests for nccl

* test nccl backend in multiple gpu

* add get_default_group function to handle different torch versions

* minor fix

* minor fix

* handle torch1.5

* handle torch1.5

* minor fix

* fix typo

* refactor unit tests

* nccl does not support gather and gather_object

* fix gather

* fix collect_results_cpu

* fix collect_results and refactor unit tests

* fix collect_results unit tests

* handle torch.cat in torch1.5

* refine docstring

* refine docstring

* fix comments

* fix comments