Seminars & Events

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
"Globus Online: A Cloud-Hosted Service For Secure, Reliable, High-Performance Data Movement"

DATE: May 17, 2011 to May 17, 2011
TIME: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SPEAKER: Steve Tuecke, Deputy Director, Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago
LOCATION: Building 240 - Room 4301, Argonne National Laboratory

Description:
Research often requires transferring large amounts of data among widely distributed resources including supercomputers, instruments, Web portals, local servers, HPC clusters and laptops/desktops. Traditional methods such as FTP and SCP are ill-suited to data movement on this scale due to poor performance and reliability, and custom solutions are costly to develop and operate. Globus Online is a new Software-as-a-Service solution that provides a robust, reliable, secure, and highly monitored environment for file transfers, with powerful yet easy-to-use interfaces. Globus Online simplifies large-scale data movement without requiring construction of custom, end-to-end systems. With Globus Online, the robust file transfer capabilities that were traditionally available only on the largest scale grid implementations are now accessible to all users – even those without the benefit of well-funded, technically savvy IT organizations. In this presentation, we will introduce Globus Online, walk through the process of signing up, and show audience members how to use both GUI and CLI interfaces to move data between two endpoints. We will also cover the Globus Connect feature, which allows users to transfer files between a GridFTP server and their local servers or laptops, even if behind a firewall, without the complexity of a full Globus install.

Save the event to your calendar [schedule.ics]