[FEA]: Support cupy.cuda.memory.MemoryPointer for temporary allocation needed by cuda.parallel algorithms
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### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
At the moment, we do `temporary_storage = cp.empty(temp_storage_bytes, dtype=cp.uint8)` while we could do `temporary_storage = cp.cuda.memory.alloc(temp_storage_bytes)` to avoid additional overhead of instantiating object of type `cupy.ndarray`.
### Describe the solution you'd like
Python API for `cuda.parallel` algorithms should support specifying temporary storage as `cupy.cuda.memory.MemoryPointer` in addition to supporting specifying it as contiguous `cupy.ndarray` object.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
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