Run-time checks for CUDA and cuBLAS versions

[timmoon10]

Description

Some users have experienced errors when running TE on systems with older CUDA versions (#1585, #1922). This is because we build the core library (libtransformer_engine.so) with a recent CUDA version and distribute it in a Pip wheel, so the compile-time and run-time CUDA versions may not match. This PR adds some more careful version checking logic, especially for cuBLAS GEMMs and CUDA multicast operations.

Closes #1585. Closes #1922.

Type of change

• Documentation change (change only to the documentation, either a fix or a new content)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Infra/Build change
• Code refactoring

Changes

• Add run-time checks for CUDA and cuBLAS versions

Checklist:

• I have read and followed the contributing guidelines
• The functionality is complete
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• My changes generate no new warnings
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

[timmoon10]

/te-ci L1

[Oleg-Goncharov]

LGTM. Nice additions to improve the runtime versions check!

[timmoon10]

/te-ci L1

[timmoon10]

/te-ci L1