[FEA]: Capture potential segmented reduce transform API and performance
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### Is this a duplicate?
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### Area
CUB
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
One of the use cases for hierarchical parallelism is RMS Norm https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/issues/8358#issuecomment-4237875945. That said, we can provide much simpler interface for RMS Norm, something along the lines of `cub::DeviceSegmentedReduceTransform` that'd use hierarchical parallelism internally, but not necesserily expose it through the interface.
### Describe the solution you'd like
This issue can be closed by filing an issue or discussion that captures:
- segmented reduce API
- list of algorithms that can be implemented with it (RMS Norm, etc)
- performance of preliminary implementation compared to other solutions (PyTorch, cuTile, etc)
If sufficient number of use cases around this interface accumulate over time, we'll consider implementing it.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
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