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[FEA]: Cast any_resource to underlying type #7994

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With RMM memory resources (prior to adopting CCCL's memory resource design), we can dynamic-cast a device_memory_resource* to determine if the MR is of a given type (e.g. a pool memory resource). Today there isn't a way to do the equivalent of a dynamic-cast to find what type is contained in a resource_ref or any_resource.

Examples of current usage of dynamic_cast of RMM memory resources:

https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/blob/53879fd1ece6c027435b16de5307e684bd44cc81/c/src/core/c_api.cpp#L159-L164

https://github.com/rapidsai/raft/blob/3d64833ed00fb472c8f8cd366f53d0d7e4efa494/cpp/include/raft/core/device_resources_manager.hpp#L160-L173

https://github.com/rapidsai/rapidsmpf/blob/0e90bd98bb9b2a9026ad4dd6277ae2ae59c9d707/cpp/src/rmm_resource_adaptor.cpp#L125-L128

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuCascade/blob/c32d144b94d7b27502d402284ac909904cd550d3/include/cucascade/memory/memory_reservation.hpp#L223-L228

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@pciolkosz mentioned that cuda::__any_cast<Tp>(&obj) exists, but it is private. This might solve our needs, if it were promoted to a public API.

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