Enable IPU for EL 9.6 (and drop EL 8.8/9.2) #4204

Job	Run time
Run unit tests in containers (Run unit tests for el9toel10 and common repositories on python 3.12...	1m 5s
Run unit tests in containers (Run python linters for el9toel10 and common repositories on python ...	1m 14s
Run unit tests in containers (Run unit tests for el9toel10 and common repositories on python 3.9,...	46s
Run unit tests in containers (Run python linters for el9toel10 and common repositories on python ...	1m 34s
Run unit tests in containers (Run unit tests for el8toel9 and common repositories on python 3.9, ...	59s
Run unit tests in containers (Run python linters for el8toel9 and common repositories on python 3...	1m 34s
Run unit tests in containers (Run unit tests for el8toel9 and common repositories on python 3.6, ...	1m 10s
Run unit tests in containers (Run python linters for el8toel9 and common repositories on python 3...	3m 49s
Run unit tests in containers (Run unit tests for el7toel8 and common repositories on python 3.6, ...	1m 14s
Run unit tests in containers (Run python linters for el7toel8 and common repositories on python 3...	4m 18s
Run unit tests in containers (Run unit tests for el7toel8 and common repositories on python 2.7, ...	1m 15s
Run unit tests in containers (Run python linters for el7toel8 and common repositories on python 2...	6m 49s
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