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    February
    14
    2023
    2023 P4 TST Election Results
    We are delighted to announce the results of the recent 2023 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Andy Fingerhut (Intel) and Fabian Ruffy (NYU/Intel/Barefoot) have been elected to 2-year terms on the P4 TST.  We...
    January
    19
    2023
    Euro P4 2022 Wrap-up
      Euro P4 is the official European workshop of the P4 Language Consortium, with the aim to bring together P4 researchers from Europe and from around the world, to discuss new innovations and ideas and...
    January
    18
    2023
    Community Member Profile: Jonathan DiLorenzo
    In this community member profile we highlight Jonathan DiLorenzo, a Software Engineer at Google Cloud, who is based in Sunnyvale, California. He has been an active contributor in the P4 and PINS communities since May...
    January
    9
    2023
    Experiences Deploying the AETHER framework – SLICES
    Blog Authors: Serge Fdida and Theodoros Tsourdinis, Sorbonne University Sorbonne University (France) & UTH (Greece) – ESFRI SLICES (slices-ri.eu) In many other sciences thoughts experiments are an important part of the research methodology. In our...
    December
    5
    2022
    Intel ® 2022 P4 China Hackathon Award Winners Announced!
    Blog Authors: Haitao Kang, Technical Director, Intel Mingrong Chen, Marketing Manager, Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute (FNII) The Intel ® 2022 P4 China Hackathon explored P4 outstanding talents, improved P4 developers' innovation capability, and promoted...
    November
    4
    2022
    The First In-person P4Pi Hackathon at ACM SIGCOMM 2022 in Amsterdam
    The SIGCOMM 2022 program featured this year an excellent main track, workshops, and tutorials which concluded with an in-person P4Pi Hackathon. This was the second P4Pi Hackathon organized in the SIGCOMM series. P4Pi (https://github.com/p4lang/p4pi) is...
    October
    26
    2022
    Applications Open for the Next Round of the ICRP’s Fast Forward Initiative (FFI ’22)
    Intel has steadfastly supported academic research throughout the years, and we are always looking for new ways to spur creativity and enable innovative projects. When conducting groundbreaking research, researchers bear the burden of proving that...
    October
    25
    2022
    Mario Baldi, AMD, Appointed as Co-Chair of the P4 Architecture Working Group
    We are pleased to announce that Mario Baldi has been appointed as the new co-chair of the P4 Architecture Working Group, joining co-chair Andy Fingerhut. Mario is replacing Gordon Brebner whom we’d like to recognize...
    August
    12
    2022
    Community Member Profile: Steffen Smolka
    In this community member profile, we would like to introduce Steffen Smolka, a Senior Software Engineer at Google who is based in Palo Alto, California. He is an active contributor in the Open Networking Foundation’s...
    August
    11
    2022
    Automatically Checking P4 Parser Equivalence with Leapfrog
    The P4 programming language is the interface of choice for programmable data plane devices. P4 programs have to meet network throughput requirements, but they are also subject to resource constraints imposed by the hardware. Compilers...