by Lorenzo Vicisano & Antonin Bas The P4 community has come a long way since the first P4 Workshop in June 2015, and can be proud of the solid ecosystem it has built. Between the new p4c compiler, that supports both P414 and P416, and the bmv2 software switch, writing and running your own P4 […]
A joint presentation by Stanford University and P4 Language Consortium. Held at Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. You can register to attend this event here. Agenda 8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introductions Professor Nick McKeown (Stanford) (slides) and Professor Nate Foster (Cornell) (slides) 9:15 – 9:45 […]
A joint presentation by Stanford University and P4 Language Consortium. Held at Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University on Tuesday, May 16, 2017. Agenda 8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast 9:00 – 9:10 Welcome and Introductions Professor Nick McKeown (Stanford) and Professor Nate Foster (Cornell) 9:10 – 10:40 P4_16 Tutorial (Part 1) by P4.org The full set […]
by Gordon Brebner, Nate Foster, and Changhoon Kim. Following up on last week’s blog post by the P4.org board announcing the P4 Technical Steering Committee (P4-TSC), we want to briefly reflect on where we are, what we have accomplished, and identify short-term and longer-term roadmaps for the P4 language as it continues to gain adoption […]
by Amin Vahdat, Jennifer Rexford, Nick McKeown. Dear P4 community: P4.org membership and P4 adoption are growing swiftly. We have over 65 member organizations in P4.org today and we continue to see notable activity in the developer community. While we strive to keep P4.org as lightweight an organization as possible, our community continues to […]
Hosted by: Stanford University Sponsored by: Xilinx, Netronome, Barefoot Networks View the P4 Developer Day – Fall 2016 schedule & directory.
Posted by P4.org on September 29, 2016 ACM SIGCOMM is widely recognized as one of the best conferences — if not the best conference — in the field of computer networking. Many seminal papers were originally published at SIGCOMM, including the RMT paper, which provided the foundation for P4. This year’s conference featured a large number […]
Posted by P4.org on July 13, 2015 Open vSwitch (“OVS”) is a virtual switch that is commonly used with Linux-based hypervisors such as KVM and Xen, although it supports other environments too such as FreeBSD and Hyper-V. Surveys have reported that OVS is the most popular networking plugin for the widely adopted OpenStack cloud management […]
Posted by P4.org on July 26, 2016 Open-NFP is pleased to announce the Open-NFP P4 Summer Webinar Series. The webinars are on topics in data plane acceleration research, including various P4 applications and using P4 with custom actions in C. The webinars aim to provide the audience with reusable applied research. You can register for […]
by Nick McKeown & Jen Rexford A few people have asked us what the difference is between P4 and OpenFlow. Is P4 just another version of OpenFlow? In this blog we’ll explain why P4 addresses a much more general problem than OpenFlow. In P4, OpenFlow is one of many possible programs to describe what the forwarding […]
Hosted by: Stanford University, ONRC & Platform Lab. Chaired by: Nick McKeown, Stanford University; Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University. Sponsored by: Netronome, AT&T, Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Barefoot Networks Agenda: 2016p4workshop.sched.org
Posted by P4.org on December 14, 2015 P4.org would like to welcome its newest member companies: Centec Networks, Comcast, Freescale, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, and SK Telecom. This brings the total number of P4.org members to 33 organizations, ranging from academia to service providers, software, system and silicon companies. It’s great to see membership more […]
