NVIDIA / NVIDIA/cccl

[FEA]: implement virtual shared memory in c.parallel and cuda.parallel merge_sort and unique_by_key

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### Is this a duplicate?

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### Area

cuda.parallel (Python)

### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

`cub::DeviceMergeSort` uses virtual shared memory in order to support larger data types. This is currently not implemented in c.parallel and cuda.parallel, see https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/blob/5857e3d0893e9767504a9944da3d5b7ea82b4ff5/c/parallel/src/merge_sort.cu#L261-L265

### Describe the solution you'd like

Implement virtual shared memory for large data types

### Describe alternatives you've considered

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### Additional context

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