[P4] Fwd: Re: P4 Paxos to DPDK

[Sándor Laki]

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Subject: 	Re: P4 Paxos to DPDK
Date: 	Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:48:33 +0200
From: 	Robert Soule <robert.soule at usi.ch>
To: 	Sándor Laki <lakis at inf.elte.hu>, Pietro Bressana 
<pietro.bressana at gmail.com>



Hi Sandor,

I have a student who can potentially work on this until the end of
August. (Unfortunately, he will be leaving after that.) Neither of us
have experience with DPDK, but one way I thought we could proceed
would be to use your compiler to generate all the code without state
accesses, and use the generated code as a starting point for adding in
memory accesses.

Do you think this is feasible? If so, could you send some pointers to
me and my student, Pietro (cc'd), about how we could use your
compiler, etc.?

thank you,
Robert

p.s. - If your master's student is interested in working on this, it
would also be great, and the offer for the short-term scholarship is
still available.



On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Sándor Laki <lakis at inf.elte.hu> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Thanks for you mail. It would be nice to collaborate on this.
>
> Actually, we have a promising MSc student working on this project, so I
> will ask him about this opportunity. However, if the travel is not
> possible, we can also allocate some resources to make run Paxos with our
> compiler.
>
> Keep in touch!
>
> Best,
> Sandor
>
> --
> Sándor Laki, PhD
> Assistant professor
> Department of Information Systems
> Eötvös Loránd University
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>
>
> On 2016.07.14. 12:35, Robert Soule wrote:
>> Hi Sándor,
>>
>> I saw your talk on the P4 to DPDK compiler at the P4 Workshop at
>> Stanford University. It is a very exciting project!
>>
>> I am an assistant professor at the University of Lugano (USI), where
>> we have been working on implementing Paxos in the P4 language. We have
>> a tech report on the work here:
>>
>> http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/soule/usi-tr-2016-03.pdf
>>
>> So far, our efforts have focused on targeting FPGAs, but we are also
>> interested in seeing if we could get similar performance benefits in
>> software using some kernel by-pass technologies. So, we thought to run
>> some basic experiments with DPDK.
>>
>> We have no experience with DPDK, but I thought that maybe we could
>> leverage some of the work you guys have already done with your
>> compiler.
>>
>> One idea I had: we recently started a scholarship program at Lugano
>> for master's students from other universities to visit Switzerland for
>> three months to work on a research project:
>>
>> http://mars.inf.usi.ch
>>
>> If you have a promising masters student who is familiar with your
>> project, perhaps they could visit USI for a short time to run Paxos in
>> our testbed using your compiler?
>>
>> best wishes,
>> Robert
>> http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/soule/
>
>
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