The 2024 SIGCOMM conference, one of the world's two premier networking summits, opened this week in Denver, USA. This year's main track accepted 109 papers, with Chinese mainland universities, research institutes, and companies contributing 59 of them, exceeding half of the total for the second consecutive year.

Tsinghua University, Alibaba, and Peking University formed the top tier of contributors, with 17, 12, and 11 papers accepted, respectively. The overall acceptance rate for this year's SIGCOMM was approximately 21%, highlighting the competitive nature of the selection process.

Alibaba has now secured the top position among global companies for eight consecutive editions, maintaining its streak with 12 papers this year. According to Cai Dezhong, a researcher at Alibaba and Vice President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, the company's collaborations span leading institutions such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University, and Xiamen University. The 12 accepted papers represent the outcome of deep industry-academia collaboration between Alibaba and its partners.

Half of the selected papers focus on AI computing networks and collective communication, with results already translated into practical production capabilities, forming a technological moat for Alibaba's cloud and AI infrastructure. Cai emphasized that in the AI era, networking is becoming the critical foundation for determining the scale, efficiency, and reliability of intelligent computing clusters. Through large-scale production practices, Alibaba Cloud continues to innovate, exploring the frontiers of next-generation intelligent computing networks while contributing open technologies, standards, and ecosystems to help unleash the full potential of AI computing power globally.