Jiang Peng: Fully apply FAST's functions in Guizhou

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, is currently the largest of its kind in the world, and has brought opportunities to Guizhou's big data industry.

Jiang Peng, chief engineer of FAST and a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), said that FAST's performance should be constantly improved in order to maintain its leading position.

In 2021, when FAST was introduced to the world, it brought up new challenges in data transmission and storage.

"We have strived for new storage technologies, including cold and hot hybrid storage technology and a storage method that combined disk array and an optical disk library," said Jiang. These technologies not only save energy, but also have storage advantages. At present, both the storage speed and computing efficiency of FAST have been greatly improved.

Currently, FAST's data center provides services such as massive data storage and reading, and high-performance computing resources. The innovations that the center has achieved not only provide a reference for similar applications, but are also significant to the development of big data.

The data center also built a data storage platform that meets the data acquisition, transmission, storage and processing needs in the field of astronomy.

Jiang said that FAST aims to cooperate with Guizhou University to promote the construction of a key national laboratory for public big data. FAST will also support Guizhou University in data resource integration and public big data technology innovation.