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The 2nd PR for #4532.

This PR supports loading FP8 kv-cache scaling factors from a FP8 checkpoint (with .kv_scale parameter).

[WIP][Core][Refactor] move vllm/model_executor/parallel_utils into vllm/distributed and vllm/device_communicators (#3950)