I would expect to see Intel pushing P4 heavily over the next year. P4 will almost certainly be involved in the roadmap for their recently released IPU (a SmartNIC needs some type of programmable substrate). Also, their data platforms group had been recruiting heavily around the Barefoot Networks / P4 angle. AND, just this morning, Pat Gelsinger announced the data platforms group is being split into two groups —- one of which (the Network and Edge group) to be headed by Nick McKeown, former chairman and cofounder of Barefoot Networks, as senior vice president [0].[0] https://www.lightreading.com/5g/intels-reorg-puts-nick-mckeo...
rektide|4 years ago
> The Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010 features an Intel Stratix 10 DX FPGA with integrated high bandwidth memory (HBM) and Intel Ethernet 800 series adapter.
4x100G. Double slot.
There's also a C5000X platform, with I believe only one board out right now, which is again an FPGA based add-on card, 2x25G, and also has an on-card Xeon-D processor.
Just a little reminder here at the end, AMD is still trying to get it's acquisition of the biggest FPGA company on the planet Xilinx to go through. And my general assessment of P4: P4 definitely is a strong contender for a tech which can get these fancy awesome transciever-heavy FPGAs to see more adoption.
[1] https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/intel-announced-two-new...
kingosticks|4 years ago
doctorsher|4 years ago
[0] https://jobs.intel.com/page/show/US-Connectivity-Jobs