Good Morning (and Afternoon/Evening) DPDK Community,

Leadership on the DPDK project is currently exploring the option of recruiting university students to begin advancing development of the tech stack, particularly in several designated areas that we’ve agreed on: Hyperscaling/Cloud Testing, Security, Artificial Intelligence. There is also room for coding development to support further expansion of Windows support via the Microsoft Visual Compiler (MSVC).

DPDK, of course, has a longstanding working relationship with the University of New Hampshire, and we have several additional universities that joined in the past as Associate Members. This can serve as a starting point.

That notwithstanding: if you are affiliated with a university and would like to assist with this, or have suggestions about a collegiate institution that might be interested in a formal partnership to effectuate additional student development of the stack,  please reach out to myself nsouthern@linuxfoundation.org, to our tech board rep Stephen Hemminger stephen@networkplumber.org, and to our lead maintainer Thomas Monjalon thomas@monjalon.net, to let us know.

Many thanks,

Nathan Southern