Adding vllm buildkite job for IBM Power (vllm-project#16679)

Signed-off-by: Aaruni Aggarwal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yang Wang <[email protected]>

Author: AaruniAggarwal

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test-ppc64le.sh

@@ -5,10 +5,34 @@
 set -ex
 
 # Setup cleanup
-remove_docker_container() { docker rm -f cpu-test || true; docker system prune -f; }
+remove_docker_container() { podman rm -f cpu-test-ubi9-ppc || true; podman system prune -f; }
 trap remove_docker_container EXIT
 remove_docker_container
 
 # Try building the docker image
-docker build -t cpu-test -f docker/Dockerfile.ppc64le .
+podman build -t cpu-test-ubi9-ppc -f docker/Dockerfile.ppc64le .
+
+# Run the image
+podman run -itd --entrypoint /bin/bash -v /tmp/:/root/.cache/huggingface --privileged=true --network host -e HF_TOKEN --name cpu-test-ubi9-ppc cpu-test-ubi9-ppc
+
+function cpu_tests() {
+
+  # offline inference
+  podman exec cpu-test-ubi9-ppc bash -c "
+    set -e
+    python3 examples/offline_inference/basic/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m"
+
+  # Run basic model test
+  podman exec cpu-test-ubi9-ppc bash -c "
+    set -e
+    pip install pytest pytest-asyncio einops peft Pillow soundfile transformers_stream_generator matplotlib
+    pip install sentence-transformers datamodel_code_generator
+    pytest -v -s tests/models/embedding/language/test_cls_models.py::test_classification_models[float-jason9693/Qwen2.5-1.5B-apeach]
+    pytest -v -s tests/models/embedding/language/test_embedding.py::test_models[half-BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5]
+    pytest -v -s tests/models/encoder_decoder/language -m cpu_model"
+}
+
+# All of CPU tests are expected to be finished less than 40 mins.
+export -f cpu_tests
+timeout 40m bash -c cpu_tests