Prototype a MACE garden

[WillEngler]

The MACE architecture is a popular option for estimating force fields. (link) This is the kind of model that should probably be in Garden's wheelhouse.

I'm going to use this ticket as a placeholder for an "epic". I'll do some exploration and break this down into smaller tasks. A first step will probably just be to get different MACE variants running on Delta, pick a decent benchmarking task or two, and produce some results. After that we'd look at "productizing" this within Garden.

Assumptions:

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Acceptance Criteria

The deliverables for this task are:

• Some proof of concept MACE runs on Delta, with code and results
• A quick pitch to the team on what an HPC-backed MACE garden would look like, and tasks to get us there

[WillEngler]

Update: Got a very simple proof-of-concept MACE relaxation function working with Modal here: https://github.com/Garden-AI/remote-relaxation.

[WillEngler]

^ Calling that a win for this sprint, and closing this ticket in favor of smaller tasks to get it running on Delta. (#525 #526 #527)