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🐛[BUG]: MissingConfigException in modulus_default #206

Description

@FTi130

Version

modulus 0.8.0; 1.70 modulus.sym

On which installation method(s) does this occur?

Pip

Describe the issue

Where occured:
Colab, T4

Versions:
Python
3.10.12
modulus.version
0.8.0
modulus.sym.version
1.7.0

Problem:
MissingConfigException: In 'modulus_default': Could not find 'amp/default'

Occurs when loading configuration from config.yaml file in Colab

Minimum reproducible example

%%writefile config.yaml

# config.yaml
defaults:
  - modulus_default
  - arch: fully_connected
  - scheduler: tf_exponential_lr
  - optimizer: adam
  - loss: sum
  - _self_

scheduler:
  decay_rate: 0.95
  decay_steps: 4000

training:
  rec_validation_freq: 1000
  rec_inference_freq: 2000
  rec_monitor_freq: 1000
  rec_constraint_freq: 2000
  max_steps: 10000

batch_size:
  TopWall: 1000
  NoSlip: 1000
  Interior: 4000

graph:
  func_arch: true





# Python code
import modulus.sym
from modulus.sym.hydra import to_yaml
from modulus.sym.hydra.utils import compose
from modulus.sym.hydra.config import ModulusConfig

cfg = compose(config_path="../../content", config_name="config")

Relevant log output

MissingConfigException                    Traceback (most recent call last)
/tmp/ipykernel_8084/1798300830.py in <cell line: 6>()
      4 from modulus.sym.hydra.config import ModulusConfig
      5 
----> 6 cfg = compose(config_path="../../content", config_name="config")
      7 cfg.network_dir = "outputs" # Set the network directory for checkpoints
      8 print(to_yaml(cfg))

15 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/hydra/_internal/defaults_list.py in config_not_found_error(repo, tree)
    797     msg += "\nConfig search path:" + f"\n{lines}"
    798 
--> 799     raise MissingConfigException(
    800         missing_cfg_file=element.get_config_path(),
    801         message=msg,

MissingConfigException: In 'modulus_default': Could not find 'amp/default'

Config search path:
	provider=hydra, path=pkg://hydra.conf
	provider=main, path=file:///content
	provider=schema, path=structured://

Environment details

Google Colab
T4

Other/Misc.

Initially thought the issue is with relative path to files in Colab, but all leads to this exception so far

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