1. Requester Information

• Team / Project:
  RHOAI on IBM Power

2. Package Details

• Package Name: ray
  Provide the exact, case-sensitive package name as it appears on PyPI (e.g., scikit-learn, tensorflow-hub).
• Package Source: https://github.com/ray-project/ray.
• (Optional) Required package version: 2.52 and 2.53

3. Build & Platform Requirements

• Hardware Variants:
  Select all additional hardware platforms where this package is needed. A CPU-only variant is built by default for all requests.
• [ ] CUDA (NVIDIA GPU)
• [ ] ROCm (AMD GPU)
• [ ] TPU (Google TPU)
• [ ] Gaudi (Intel Gaudi)
• [ ] Spyre (IBM)
• [*] Other (Please specify): CPU

4. Justification & Testing

• Business Justification: ray wheel file is not available on PyPi for IBM Power architecture. We need this wheel for the RHOAI's kuberay component to build images for distributed inferencing and training ML models. 
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• If available, please link to any existing RFE/ STRAT ticket
• If this is slated for a release, provide the date you need this to be made available. (specify also the product and,version)

• (Optional) Testing Requirements:
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• Our default test is a simple package import. Describe any specific tests you require beyond this.

Example: "Must be able to run the package's built-in pytest suite," or "Verify function X runs correctly on a GPU."