"The steps seem steeped in water when cold grows the night. She lies to watch two stars in love meet in the sky." Many lovers like to watch the beautiful Perseid meteor shower together on Chinese Valentine's Day. Ali Prefecture has the world's best dark starry night. It is a holy place for astronomy enthusiasts and photographers and also an excellent place for lovers to watch meteor showers. Beautiful meteor showers and dazzling galaxies often arouse people's imagination of the distant starry sky and lure people to explore the universe. Today, along with the construction of observatories, the vision of "stars within your reach" has become a reality.
Located in Ali region of Tibet, the Ali Observatory is currently the highest astronomical observation base in the world. Jointly established by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ali Prefecture Government, it is an important astronomical observation and scientific research base in China.
With a high altitude and geographical advantages such as many sunny nights, low cloud cover, and dry surface, being far from the coastline, and without too much light interference, Ali region is one of the best places on earth to observe astrological phenomena. As a result, Ali Observatory has become a bridgehead for astronomical observation work.
Cloud computing makes "stars within your reach" a reality.
As an important astronomical observation and scientific research base in China, Ali Observatory generates massive amounts of observation data every day. How to enable these massive data from the plateau to create greater value has become a problem concerned by all. Data migration to the cloud is undoubtedly the best solution to this difficulty at present, but the complex geographical environment and massive astronomical data make it difficult for cloud migration. Faced with this severe challenge, eSurfing Cloud and Ali Astronomical Observation Base joined forces to solve the "last mile" problem of massive data processing. The astronomical observation data become an open resource, making cloud migration of astronomical data a possibility.
In addition to astronomical observation work, Ali Observatory has also built the world's highest astronomical science popularity station. The astronomical observatory takes the form of driving science popularity with scientific research, which in turn promotes science popularity. Giving full play to the advantages of the Observatory's excellent observation conditions and strong scientific research and innovation capabilities, the Observatory creates an astronomical science popularity and education base that integrates astronomical observation, exhibition and education. This makes a historic breakthrough in the number of plateau astronomical science popularity stations "from 0 to 1".
Ali Observatory is located in Ali region of Tibet, known as "the top of the roof of the world". It is undoubtedly a difficult task to build an astronomical observation base in such a remote area. China Telecom provides a strong communication guarantee for the Ali Observatory under the extreme plateau environment, helping the Observatory to achieve the goals of real-time uploading, real-time storage, and real-time reading of astronomical data, which greatly facilitates astronomical observation work. At the same time, eSurfing Cloud continues to offer high-performance computing storage services and high-performance cloud-network integration services to the Observatory, hence effectively guaranteeing the security of observation data.
The development of science has never been the effort of one person, but the joint efforts of a group of people and multiple industries. In this process, more responsible companies are needed to come forward and shoulder the responsibility of digital development. eSurfing Cloud will continue to add "cloud wings" to China's scientific research undertakings with high-quality cloud network infrastructure and services, so as to help astronomical explorations to unravel more unknown territories.