Welcome to the GridFTP Portal

The Globus GridFTP server and client tools and libraries make up a robust product suite designed to move large amounts of data faster, more securely, and more reliably than standard FTP.

GridFTP can be used either stand alone or as part of the Globus Toolkit.
Typical performance improvements range an order of magnitude higher than FTP and can jump to multiple orders of magnitude when striping or cluster-to-cluster data movement functionality is used.
GridFTP provides a scriptable command-line client (globus-url-copy), a highly extensible server, and a flexible set of development libraries for custom solutions.
GridFTP also has a Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) compliant web service client called Reliable File Transfer (RFT) service. It provides "job scheduler"-like functionality for data movement.

Here is some useful information for using GridFTP:

Quickstart guide for GridFTP-Lite (GridFTP using SSH security)
Quickstart guide for Anonymous GridFTP
New Features
The GridFTP Advantage: Seven compelling features of GridFTP
Documentation
Tutorials
Talks
Downloads
Bandwidth Limiting
GridFTP FAQ
Success Stories

Check out all the useful GT components at www.globus.org/toolkit/. The Globus Toolkit is packaged as a set of components that can be used either independently or together to develop Grid applications. It includes software for:

security,
information infrastructure,
resource management,
data management,
communication,
fault detection, and
portability.

Every organization has unique modes of operation, and collaboration between multiple organizations is hindered when resources such as data archives, computers, and networks are incompatible. The Globus Toolkit was conceived to remove obstacles that prevent seamless collaboration. Its core services, interfaces and protocols allow users to access remote resources as if they were located within their own machine room while simultaneously preserving local control over who can use which resources and when.