[FEA]: CCCL.c.parallel should support n-ary transforms
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### Is this a duplicate?
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### Area
cuda.cccl.parallel (Python)
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
CCCL.c.parallel's transform only supports unary and binary transforms.
In [CUDF](https://github.com/rapidsai/CUDF), a single column could have 3 input arrays, an example being the string column, which is composed of prefix-sum indices, string data, and null-mask.
Most data transformation operations involve more than one column and are of arbitrary counts.
This is important for CUDF's adoption
### Describe the solution you'd like
Implement multi-input & multi-output transforms on an arbitrary number of iterators (preferably unbounded).
### Describe alternatives you've considered
None will be feasible; the iterators are type and data-rate specific.
### Additional context
CUDF's Multi-input Transform support PR: https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/17881
Blogpost with some more examples of multi-input transform use-cases: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/efficient-transforms-in-cudf-using-jit-compilation/
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