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File Transfer Component for Grids

File Transfer Client for Grids

LOOKING FOR DEVELOPER:
This component is currently not staffed. We are looking for a community volunteer improving it.

The File Transfer Client (FTC) provides the ability to conveniently transfer files between computers on the Grid with the help of a graphical user interface.
The user interface is based on a familiar concept of file browser windows that allow dragging and dropping files between each other.to instantiate the transfer of files (see Figure 2). A monitoring window provides information about the status of the transfer. The FTC supports  FTP, GridFTP, and the Reliable File Transfer  protocol. The client is available as Java Bean.


Figure 2. The basic GUI interface of the File Transfer Component.

Client Installation

The file transfer component is available in the Java CoG Kit 1.1. Detailed information about the instalation can be found in the Java CoG Kit manual. We have decided to remove the webstart enabled instalation till we have found a community developer helping on this effort. 

Contacts

The current status of the FTC is alpha.

For more information please contact:

Gregor von Laszewski
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
gregor@mcs.anl.gov
(630) 252 0472

 

Team

Gregor von Laszewski 

Former Team Members

Beulah Kurian Alunkal

 

Acknowledgments

A very early prototype for this component was designed at Illinois Institute of Technology under the supervision Dr.Gregor von Laszewski as class project taught by Dr. Gregor von Laszewski and Dr.Xian-He Sun. This work is supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Science Division subprogram of the Office of Advance Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38. DARPA, DOE, NSF support for the Globus Toolkit research and development. We thank all the members of the Globus Project for the valuable help.


References

  1. von Laszewski, G., The Java CoG Kit Manual
  2. The GridFTP Protocol and Software. http://www.globus.org/datagrid/gridftp.html.
  3. Allcock, B., and Madduri, R. Reliable File Transfer Service. http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~madduri/RFT.html
  4. Goland, Y., Whitehead, E., Irvine, U., Faizi, A., Carter, S., and Jensen, D. HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring – WEBDAV. http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2518.html, February 1999.
  5. Postel, J., and Reynolds, J. File Transfer Protocol. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc959/Overview.html, October 1985.
  6. von Laszewski, G., Foster, I., Gawor, J., Lane, P., Rehn, N., , and Russell, M. Designing Grid Based Problem Solving Environments and Portals. In 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

 

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