The earth is a living organism. Its atmosphere, ocean currents, and crust are in constant change. Seemingly instantaneous and isolated events are, in fact, the result of a long-term, interconnected web of relationships. To archive Taiwan's geological history, National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC), National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs), is building Taiwan's first petascale Earth Science Observation Knowledgebase (ESOK). Observations from space and the atmosphere of both the earth and its oceans will be safely stored in the Knowledgebase, with high-performance computing and Big Data technology to provide an integrated knowledgebase and service functions.

The ESOK is the country's first petascale platform for integrated scientific observation data, offering big data storage, archiving, and management. Its huge volume of real-time and historical data from geological observations will closely related to people's lives, including raw observation and numerical model data from FORMOSAT-2's ground images; global ionosphere observation, temperature/humidity, ocean hydrology, and ocean currents, color, temperature, and surface windfields, salinity; atmospheric radar temperature/humidity, wind speeds, rainfall, and typhoon paths; as well as geological, soil, and seismic wave data. It is the first databa

For the challenge of integrating high-frequency, high streaming performance, and petascale data, NCHC has established a sustainable scientific data archiving and services infrastructure on a national level, including petascale data storage and large scale analytical computing host connections built on the TWAREN network, providing offsite backup across the country and information security services. The Knowledgeba

The Knowledgeba