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[usability] Improve SkyRL cold start time #1954

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Currently SkyRL load times are dominated by kernel/cuda graph compilation. These can be optimized/reused when available + when using the same engine/trainer configs instead of compiling from scratch on existing clusters.

Some techniques for this are detailed in the Nemotron-Ultra tech report (https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-Technical-Report.pdf)
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  • [P0] Persistent warm cache on shared storage + node local seeding on startup (for fully async/non-colocated, need to make sure that inference + trainer nodes are consistently seeded to the same ips if the cluster remains the same)
  • [P1] Use persistent warm cache + RDT to quickly + dynamically add new inference engines during training

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