P4 Joins Google Summer of Code 2024
Mar 12, 2024 |
We are excited to announce our participation in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024! GSoC is a global program that connects anyone interested in open-source contributions with open-source project maintainers. We are mentoring a variety of GSoC projects this year. Topics range from improving our documentation and tooling for the…
2024 P4 TST Election Results
Jan 11, 2024 |
We are delighted to announce the results of the recent 2024 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Nate Foster (Cornell), Steffen Smolka (Google) and Hari Thantry (Google) have been elected to 2-year terms on the P4 TST. We also would like to extend a warm thank you to outgoing TST…
P4 Becomes an Independent Project, Hosted by the Linux Foundation
Jan 4, 2024 |
From its humble academic origins, P4 has grown into a vibrant open-source project, with a dedicated community of researchers and practitioners united by a shared mission: to create a deeply programmable platform that puts network owners, not equipment vendors and standards bodies, in control of their networks. The Open Networking…
New P4 Education Working Group Co-Chair
Aug 21, 2023 |
We are pleased to announce that Muhammad Shahbaz, Purdue University, has taken on the role of co-chair of the P4 Education Working Group. Muhammad Shahbaz is a Kevin C. and Suzanne L. Kahn New Frontiers Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Purdue University. His research focuses on designing and developing…
Building a Rack-Scale Computer with P4 at the Core
Aug 11, 2023 |
During a recent P4.org open source developer days Ryan Goodfellow was invited to give a talk and demo about an independently developed open source P4 compiler built by a team at Oxide Computer Company. This blog is an overview of his presentation. ========================== Background A rack scale computer is hardware…
