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**Description**
Add distributed inference benchmark cpp implementation.

**Description**
This commit revises distributed inference benchmark to give a unified
step time result by taking maximum step times of different GPUs.

**Description**

Cherry-pick bug fixes from v0.8.0 to main.

**Major Revisions**

* Monitor - Fix the cgroup version checking logic (#502)
* Benchmark - Fix matrix size overflow issue in cuBLASLt GEMM (#503)
* Fix wrong torch usage in communication wrapper for Distributed
Inference Benchmark (#505)
* Analyzer: Fix bug in python3.8 due to pandas api change (#504)
* Bug - Fix bug to get metric from cmd when error happens (#506)
* Monitor - Collect realtime GPU power when benchmarking (#507)
* Add num_workers argument in model benchmark (#511)
* Remove unreachable condition when write host list (#512)
* Update cuda11.8 image to cuda12.1 based on nvcr23.03 (#513)
* Doc - Fix wrong unit of cpu-memory-bw-latency in doc (#515)
* Docs - Upgrade version and release note (#508)
Co-authored-by: guoshzhao <guzhao@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Ziyue Yang <ziyyang@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Yuting Jiang <yutingjiang@microsoft.com>

**Description**
This PR adds a micro-benchmark of distributed model inference workloads.

**Major Revision**
- Add a new micro-benchmark dist-inference.
- Add corresponding example and unit tests.
- Update configuration files to include this new micro-benchmark.
- Update micro-benchmark README.

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Co-authored-by: Peng Cheng <chengpeng5555@outlook.com>