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Oct 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 and thank for his participation and contributions in the P4 Architecture Working Group and the…

Aug 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 P4 community. Steffen holds a PhD & MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and…

Aug 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 and human programmers try to optimize code to meet these constraints, which is hard enough…

Jul 28, 2022

P4 Novel Use Award Winners!

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Novel Applications of P4 Awards, Fabricio Rodriguez, Pratap Pellakuru and Sharmila S.! The awards are offered to encourage creative and disruptive use cases for P4 and all the presentations included in the P4 2022 Workshop were eligible to win. Award winners were selected…

Jul 25, 2022

Community Member Profile: Mihai Budiu

In this community member profile, we would like to introduce Mihai Budiu, a researcher at VMware Research who is based in Palo Alto, California. He is an active contributor in the Open Networking Foundation’s P4 community. Mihai holds a Computer Science, Ph.D, from Carnegie Mellon University and after graduate school…