[P4] Fwd: Re: EIT Digital joint project

Tue Mar 7 21:11:37 CET 2017

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Subject: 	Re: EIT Digital joint project
Date: 	Tue, 7 Mar 2017 21:11:01 +0100
From: 	Sándor Laki <lakis at inf.elte.hu>
To: 	Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>, Gergely 
Pongracz <Gergely.Pongracz at ericsson.com>, Kinsella, Ray 
<ray.kinsella at intel.com>
CC: 	matej at caesar.elte.hu

Sorry, I simply forgot to add the doodle poll link:
http://doodle.com/poll/v6rrgaqismahspcw

Thanks for your reply.

Best,
Sandor

On 2017.03.07. 20:41, Dumitrescu, Cristian wrote:
> Thanks, Sandor.
>
> I am not familiar with doodle pools, is this a sort of calendar invite for a meeting? I did not get an invite so far.
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sándor Laki [mailto:lakis at inf.elte.hu]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 9:09 AM
>> To: Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>; Gergely Pongracz
>> <Gergely.Pongracz at ericsson.com>; Kinsella, Ray <ray.kinsella at intel.com>
>> Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Tejfel_M=c3=a1t=c3=a9_=28matej@ <caesar.elte.hu=29?=
>> matej at caesar.elte.hu>
>> Subject: Re: EIT Digital joint project
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Please find a short summary of the EIT Digital pre-call workshop below:
>>
>> 1. Call will be announced on 14th March and submission deadline is 5th May.
>> 2. Impact on market - Create a product/service OR create a startup OR
>> transfer technology
>> 3. Go-to-market startegy
>> 4. Project duration: 1st january 2018 - 31st December 2018 -
>> continuation is also possible
>> 4. I do not think that there is too much changes compared to last year -
>> but the chance of winning is based on the position of EIT Digital within
>> EIT. As far as I know last year almost every project proposal has been
>> accepted - since Digital got higher funding than they previously expected.
>>
>> I attached two slides: 1) the official presentation about the goals of
>> this call with dates and expected impacts; 2) a presentation on our
>> project idea. My idea was to sell our P4 compiler as the technology
>> available (of course it requires maturation and experimentation) and we
>> are looking for business opportunity. Besides technology improvements we
>> have to put emphasis on business aspects as well.
>>
>> I have just created a doodle poll for a meeting where we can discuss the
>> proposal idea in more detail.
>>
>> Best,
>> Sandor
>>
>>
>> On 2017.03.06. 10:04, Sándor Laki wrote:
>>> Dear Cristian,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the delay. I was out of office in the last weeks. The
>>> submission deadline has not been announced yet, but we expect to be
>>> around end of April 2017. Similarly to previous years, very short
>>> proposals will be required with crispy technical and business
>>> descriptions. I'm attending a pre-call ws of EIT today, hoping to get
>>> some more information about the details of upcoming call. I will send
>>> you a summary of this event this evening and will also send you a
>>> doodle poll on the some meeting date proposals.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Sandor
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2017.02.21. 16:51, Dumitrescu, Cristian wrote:
>>>> Hi Gergely,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, we were very close last year, I am definitely interested in
>>>> working together on the EIT project. What is the deadline for
>>>> submissions?
>>>>
>>>> Please set up a call any time that works for you, either now or post
>>>> MWC, to discuss the next steps.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Cristian
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Gergely Pongracz [mailto:Gergely.Pongracz at ericsson.com]
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 3:08 PM
>>>>> To: Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>; Kinsella, Ray
>>>>> <ray.kinsella at intel.com>
>>>>> Cc: Sándor Laki (lakis at inf.elte.hu) <lakis at inf.elte.hu>; Tejfel Máté
>>>>> <matej at caesar.elte.hu> (matej at caesar.elte.hu)
>> <matej at caesar.elte.hu>
>>>>> Subject: FW: EIT Digital joint project
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Christian, hi Ray,
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope you still work at Intel and work closely with DPDK and/or the
>>>>> packet
>>>>> framework. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> You might know that we are active in the P4 area with two university
>>>>> co-
>>>>> operations, one is working with DPDK directly as a backend for P4
>>>>> (lead by
>>>>> two professors, Sandor Laki and Mate Tejfel, in cc). They made a
>>>>> successful
>>>>> SigComm demo last year. This year we are focusing on the new
>>>>> language (P4-
>>>>> 16), new use cases and the implications of the language changes on
>>>>> our CPU-
>>>>> based track (seems that P4-16 is more "hardware friendly"). In the
>>>>> (short-
>>>>> term) future we are thinking on launching az EIT project and
>>>>> although we
>>>>> have plenty of time to prepare that, I think it makes sense to ask
>>>>> you right
>>>>> now whether you would be interested in such an activity. Last year we
>>>>> almost started a project, but ran out of time. :-) I attached some
>>>>> materials,
>>>>> perhaps the most informative is the proposal from last year which
>>>>> could form
>>>>> a basis for the new proposal.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently in Barcelona (MWC), so it is hard to call for a
>>>>> meeting in the next
>>>>> 2 weeks, but we can still have some initial conversation around this
>>>>> activity
>>>>> and whether you are interested at all or not. :-) Or you can still
>>>>> have a short
>>>>> chat with Sandor and/or Mate to discuss the details, start planning.
>>>>> And if I'm
>>>>> lucky, I'll be able to join, but that's very unpredictable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Gergely
>> --
>> Sándor Laki, PhD
>> Assistant professor
>> Department of Information Systems
>> Eötvös Loránd University
>> Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C
>> H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
>> Room 2.506
>> Web: http://lakis.web.elte.hu
>> Phone: +36 1 372 2869 / 8477
>> Cell: +36 70 374 2646
>>
>>
>>
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Sándor Laki, PhD
Assistant professor
Department of Information Systems
Eötvös Loránd University
Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C
H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
Room 2.506
Web: http://lakis.web.elte.hu
Phone: +36 1 372 2869 / 8477
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