Argonne researchers demonstrate extraordinary throughput at SC14

December 3, 2014 | For Immediate Release

Argonne, Illinois. – December 3, 2014 – A team of researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and DataDirect Networks (DDN) moved 65 terabytes of data in under just 100 minutes at a recent supercomputing conference. Typically, two days are needed to move this volume of data between sites with a 10 Gbps connection.

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Compute Canada Launches Globus Portal

December 2, 2014 | Compute Canada

Compute Canada, Canada's advanced research computing resource, today announced the launch of the Compute Canada Globus Portal, a high-performance file-transfer service designed for Canadian researchers. The announcement was made as part of a Parliament Hill event highlighting the importance of advanced research computing and celebrating the successes of Canadian researchers.

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Big improvements in Globus performance on Amazon S3 endpoints

November 11, 2014 | Vas Vasiliadis

Our first implementation for transferring files to/from Amazon S3 endpoints (buckets) was a good proof of concept but performance was, at best, average. In our latest release, we’ve upped the stakes significantly and used multiple techniques to improve performance: (1) using parallel TCP file streams, (2) quickly retrying on transient faults, and (3) using multipart-upload only for files greater than 100MB.

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Software-as-a-Service: Creating Operational Efficiencies and Democratizing Access

October 29, 2014 | EvoLLLution

Using SaaS is commonplace in industry but only just starting to make inroads in higher education. This article describes the benefits of using SaaS in other areas on campus, in particular to manage the growing volumes of research data. Beyond time and cost arguments, SaaS can deliver advanced capabilities to many researchers that their campus IT would not otherwise be able to provide, thereby "democratizing" access.

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Purdue, Globus partnership gives researchers an easy way to move big data to and from campus

October 16, 2014 | Purdue ITaP News

A new agreement between Globus and Purdue now gives Purdue researchers a Purdue-specific Globus website for transferring and sharing data. The Purdue Globus portal gives us an easy place for Purdue users to start," says Preston Smith, manager of research support for ITaP Research Computing (RCAC). "They can log in with their Purdue career accounts and off they go."

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Globus' response to the SSLv3 "POODLE" vulnerability

October 16, 2014 | Stuart Martin

On Wednesday, October 14th, a new vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566) was announced in the SSLv3 protocol.

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The Globus policies, they are a-changin'

October 16, 2014 | Vas Vasiliadis

We recently changed the policies that govern access to certain Globus features. These changes are informed by our experiences in offering paid subscriptions to researchers and resource providers over the past ~2 years. Here's what's changing:

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Globus' response to the remote code execution through bash vulnerability

September 25, 2014 | Stuart Martin

On Wednesday, September 24th, a new vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) was announced in the widely used GNU Bourne Again shell and command language interpreter (aka Bash), which is the default shell for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, among others.

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CASC Meeting - Fall 2014

September 17, 2014 (All day) to September 19, 2014 (All day)

CASC (the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation) is dedicated to advocating the use of the most advanced computing technology to accelerate scientific discovery among its member institutions, which include many of the nation's largest research universities. The themes of the CASC Fall Meeting are HIPAA, Clouds and "After Hardware, What?". Ian Foster will present Globus service for genomics analysis.

Cloud Computing Panel

September 17, 1:00 – 2:30pm

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Internet2 and ESNet Technology Exchange

October 27, 2014 (All day) to October 30, 2014 (All day)

Indianapolis, IN

The annual Technology Exchange is a premier technical event in the global research and education community, convening chief technologists, scientists, engineers, architects, operators and students from around the globe. The Globus team is participating in multiple sessions and will be available to discuss how campuses are building research data management solutions using Globus.

Science Gateways–Novel Technologies Enhance Usability for Research Communities

Tuesday, October 28, 4:15-5:00PM

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