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Mar 12, 2024

P4 Joins Google Summer of Code 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…

Jan 11, 2024

2024 P4 TST Election Results

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…

Jan 4, 2024

P4 Becomes an Independent Project, Hosted by the Linux Foundation

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…

Aug 21, 2023

New P4 Education Working Group Co-Chair

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…

Aug 11, 2023

Building a Rack-Scale Computer with P4 at the Core

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…