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trunk/4078ac41bdf75d5da306a8214384bfa54c85c4b6: [c10d] Make nccl2 the default NCCL backend (#192281)

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The standard nccl backend still selected legacy ProcessGroupNCCL unless users opted into nccl2 through an environment variable, even though the explicit nccl2 and nccl-legacy names make backend selection reversible. Invert the registration so an unset variable or TORCH_DIST_USE_NCCL2=1 selects nccl2, while TORCH_DIST_USE_NCCL2=0 and the explicit nccl-legacy name remain rollback paths. Defaulting also exposed three n…

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