Bi-weekly Webinars to Focus on SDN and NFV Networking Application Development and Programming and Dataplane Acceleration on Top of SmartNICs
SANTA CLARA, CA. – February 14, 2017 – Open-NFP, a worldwide, community-driven organization focused on research and development in datapath offloads and acceleration for SDN and NFV applications, announced today its spring series of webinars focused on SmartNIC programming techniques, applications and usage. The five session series runs from March 29 through May 17, 2017. Registration is open and free for all webinars. Open-NFP (which stands for Open Network Function Processing) fosters open and free development of server-based networking applications that require hardware-based acceleration to deliver higher performance and efficiency.
“Designers and operators of modern data center networks desire the ability to evolve the features they require in their networks to meet the needs of new cloud workloads and changing traffic patterns. We are excited to assemble and host our spring webinar series which features a compelling lineup of industry experts,” said Dr. Bapi Vinnakota, managing director of Open-NFP. “Developers wishing to tackle today’s dataplane acceleration challenges, and further their own practical knowledge, will appreciate the opportunity to learn from their peers on how to rapidly develop or add new networking features into production and ready-to-deploy COTS server networking hardware. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the academic, industry and research communities to further enhance their programming education and productivity.”
Open-NFP Spring 2017 Webinar Series Dates, Topics and Speakers:
- March 29 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time – “OpenContrail, Real Speed: Offloading vRouter” presented by Netronome
- April 12 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time – “Measuring a 25 and 40Gb/s Dataplane” presented by Netronome
- April 26 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time – “Network Measurement with P4 and C on Netronome NFP” presented by the University of Massachusetts Lowell
- May 3 at 9:00am Pacific Time – “Transparent eBPF Offload: Playing Nice with the Linux Kernel” presented by Netronome
- May 17 at 9:00am Pacific Time – “Accelerating Networked Applications with Flexible Packet Processing” presented by the University of Texas
Since its inception and the first annual developer conference in November 2015, Open-NFP membership has grown and now hosts over 35 open research and development projects from academia and industry. Relevant software and sample datapath libraries are all hosted on GitHub, enabling collaborative development across distributed teams.
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About Open-NFP
Open-NFP.org is a worldwide, community-driven organization that enables open and collaborative research in the area of network function processing in server networking hardware. The organization is designed to serve the growing need from the academic and data center networking communities to conduct cutting-edge research and development in the areas of server-based networking datapath offload and acceleration techniques. The organization’s website is designed to be a common repository of open source networking datapath P4 and C application code and research papers. For more information please visit www.open-nfp.org.
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