Abstract:

[Objective] Meteorological businesses, which are highly information-dependent, always have very strong and unique requirements for information technology. The modern and sustainable system architecture has a decisive impact on the business efficiency and the building of the system. [Methods] The “Country-wide-integrated-grand-data-center” together with the “East-West Computing Requirement Transfer” strategy provide not only a new vision for building the information system architecture, but also a new way of thinking about digital transformation in various industries. Running high-performance computing (HPC) applications such as numerical weather prediction (NWP) usually requires a huge quantity of computing power, while at the same time consuming a large amount of energy. Establishing data centers in the Western part of China can effectively reduce the costs of energy consumption, and consequently results in the reduction of carbon emission. Transmitting data from data centers in the east to data centers in the west and then performing the computing and processing in the west is an ideal way for running data-intensive as well as HPC applications in terms of energy and economy. In this article, we briefly describe modern computing power architecture, its primary contents, and essential core characteristics. We further analyze the customized requirements specific to the meteorology industry. [Results] Then we propose a meteorological computing power architecture based on the above analysis and the state-of-the-art cloud computing technologies, particularly cloud native technologies. This architecture consists of fundamental business frameworks and functionalities in the meteorology industry. The sustainability of this architecture is emphasized.

Key words: East-West Computing Requirement Transfer, meteorological computing power architecture, computing power architecture, cloud computing, data center