Microsoft cooperates with national Satellite Meteorological Center to develop cloud computing processing

October 8, 2011, Beijing-Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. and the China Meteorological Bureau, the National Satellite Meteorological Center signed a strategic memorandum of cooperation, announced the establishment of joint laboratories to work together to develop cloud-based platform based on large data, high-performance concurrent processing technology, Thus providing more advanced satellite data and product applications and services for national meteorological satellite organizations and users at all levels.

As the authoritative agency for the application of national meteorological satellite data in weather forecast, climate change and ecological environment monitoring, the National Meteorological Bureau of China Meteorological Administration has been working to expand the application service field of meteorological satellite data. Through the establishment of the China Meteorological Bureau National Satellite Meteorological Center-Microsoft Joint Laboratory, Microsoft China Cloud Computing Innovation Center will work with the Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group and the relevant team with the National Satellite Meteorological Center, together in the cloud computing, large data, high performance computing ( High-performance Computing), the massive parallel processing (massively Parallel 處理) and other frontier areas of cooperative research, for the National Meteorological Satellite Center in the future technology direction, overall system architecture planning and design to provide a forward-looking, Constructive technology platform, solutions and reference data to build a solid IT infrastructure for next-generation satellite data processing systems.

"Cloud computing is profoundly changing all industries. "With the progress of meteorological satellite data observation technology, the processing, storage and utilization of massive satellite data have brought new demands and challenges to it," said Tom Casey, Microsoft Global vice president at the helm of the Business Platform Cloud Services Division. At the same time, Microsoft has been on the cloud platform for High-performance parallel processing and unstructured data management applications focused on, we have to help the China Meteorological Bureau to establish a future it technology reserves ready. ”

The cooperation between Microsoft and the China Meteorological Bureau began in 2005, the third Meteorological satellite project construction, the two sides in the massive space database application, large-scale parallel operation and other areas of in-depth cooperation, and further improve the meteorological satellite engineering system technology and satellite application benefits. "China is becoming a global research and development Center for cloud computing, high-performance computing and an important emerging market," said Zhang, Microsoft's senior vice president and Microsoft Asia Pacific Research and Development Group, and is pleased to see that we are working with our partners on the long-term sustainability of China's public service, which has been an important driver of our “

China Meteorological Bureau, deputy director of the National Satellite Meteorological Center Wei Yaeying attended the signing ceremony of the Strategic cooperation Memorandum, the National Satellite Meteorological Center and Microsoft Joint Strategic Cooperative Development platform to congratulate, "in the past six years, we and Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group in the study of mass data storage, The parallel processing has carried out the fruitful work. By building joint Laboratories, we will jointly advance the advanced IT architecture and technology development in the fields of large-scale parallel computing, massive data management, spatial data dissemination and service of meteorological satellites, so that meteorological satellites can play a better role in national meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation, coping with global climate change and so on. “

At this point, Microsoft and the Chinese government in the field of cloud computing collaboration has been fully developed, including: More than 70% of Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group engineers to participate in global cloud computing products, technology and services development, September 2010 in Shanghai to help the Chinese government, Customers and partners to achieve cloud computing potential of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Innovation Center, and Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuxi, Jinan and other local governments and enterprises in the field of cloud computing close cooperation in order to upgrade the level of information technology, to achieve industrial upgrading; and today to help China meteorological satellite development, "China Meteorological Bureau National Meteorological Center Joint Lab of Microsoft Corporation.

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