Mary Bass's Blog

Go Globus: To Infinity and Beyond

January 10, 2020  |  Mary Bass

(Originally published on University of Pittsburgh blog) Research Reality: Research projects can include multiple collaborators, generate large amounts of data, include hundreds or thousands of participants/samples, and require significant computing...

Real-Time Streaming Data Analysis Project Wins SC19 SCinet Challenge

December 04, 2019  |  Mary Bass

Two essential elements of the cyberinfrastructure required to advance modern science are networking and high performance computing resources. That’s what SCinet set out to demonstrate at SC19 in Denver, with...

Now Available: Subscriber Welcome Kit

November 25, 2019  |  Mary Bass

Are you a Globus subscriber? We now have a great resource for you: a Welcome Kit designed to get you up and running with Globus quickly and easily. The kit...

DataCite Switches to Globus for Authentication

October 15, 2019  |  Mary Bass

(Originally published on DataCite blog October 14, 2019.) DataCite started work on improving DataCite authentication two months ago, beginning with a major upgrade of the Profiles service. One visible change...

Why Globus for Extreme-Scale Cosmology: A Conversation with Argonne’s Katrin Heitmann

July 08, 2019  |  Mary Bass

Globus recently saw the biggest single file transfer in our history: a team led by Argonne National Laboratory scientists moved 2.9 petabytes of data on the Summit system at Oak...

Ian Foster Reflects on Parallel Computing Then, Now, and Future

April 10, 2019  |  Mary Bass

Q&A with 2019 Babbage Award Recipient In March 2019, Ian Foster, director of Argonne’s Data Science and Learning division, received the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award for his...

Ian Foster Presents at NCI ITCR18

May 24, 2018  |  Mary Bass

At the National Cancer Institute's 2018 Annual Meeting for ITCR (Information Technology for Cancer Research), Ian Foster, Globus co-founder and Argonne Data Science and Learning Division Director, presented on "Building...

If it's good enough for the Secretary of Energy...

March 28, 2018  |  Mary Bass

This week in a trip to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the U.S. Secretary of Energy used Globus to move 500GB of data between ALCF and NERSC. In the HPC world,...