NVIDIA / NVIDIA/Megatron-LM

Muon CPU offload

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Description

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
When training GLM5 with 6 nodes + Muon optimizer + LoRA, it will OOM.

Tag the [@mcore-oncall](https://github.com/orgs/NVIDIA/teams/mcore-oncall)
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**Describe the solution you'd like**
Offload the optimizer states of Muon to CPU can help the issue.

**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Increasing # of GPUs can help, but offloading Muon optimizer states like done for Adam will be helpful.

**Additional context**
A tentative PR for CPU offload is created https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM/pull/4475, feel free to review!

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