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Enabling integration across research infrastructures for accelerating science

April 30, 2025

General Atomics: Higher Fidelity Plasma State Reconstructions and Particle Tracking Across Facilities for DIII-D The DIII-D program is leveraging the power of Globus to streamline and automate their analysis pipelines, significantly enhancing the efficiency and responsiveness of their research workflows.

Enabling integration across research infrastructures for accelerating science

April 18, 2025

This collaboration between Ptychodus and Globus not only enhances the efficiency of ptychographic imaging but also fosters greater collaboration and data sharing among leading research facilities, paving the way for new discoveries and innovations in the field.

Enabling integration across research infrastructures for accelerating science

March 26, 2025

The OpenCosmo Data and Analysis Portal aims to simplify cosmology research by providing a central hub for interacting with large-scale simulation datasets. OpenCosmo is built on Globus platform services, using Globus Flows to manage data transfers and analyses across HPC sites.

Enabling integration across research infrastructures for accelerating science

March 06, 2025 | Ryan Chard

Welcome to our blog series on using Globus to integrate diverse research infrastructures to accelerate science. In today's data-intensive scientific landscape, it is increasingly necessary to make use of resources that are located at different facilities. Resilient X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy With Facility Failover

New permissions on runs for flow owners

February 17, 2025 | Brigitte Raumann

A growing number of shared instrument facilities offer flows to their users in order to automate routine workflows, such as data movement between instruments and computing resources, execution of data analysis pipelines, metadata extraction, and publication to data distribution portals. We are working on delivering new features to support these use cases.

Congratulations You Have Built a Globus

January 23, 2025

We read with amusement “Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes” and “Dear Sir, You have built a compiler”, two tongue-in-cheek commentaries on the tendency to build quick-and-dirty scripts because the best-of-breed solution is “overkill”. We said, “someone should write one of those for Globus.”

Globus meets new security expectations for NIH controlled-access data

December 05, 2024 | Brigitte Raumann

NIH has announced an Implementation Update for Data Management and Access Practices Under the Genomic Data Sharing Policy. Effective January 25, 2025, Approved Users of NIH controlled-access data must attest they maintain such data on institutional IT systems and third-party computing infrastructures compliant with NIST SP 800-171. You can use Globus data management services to meet these new NIH security best practices for controlled-access data at your institution.

Globus Named in Multiple HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

November 19, 2024

Globus was recognized in the 21st edition of HPCwire awards alongside other contributing organizations, and was named in three HPCwire awards including Editors’ Choice : Best Use of HPC in the Physical Sciences, Readers’ Choice: Best HPC in the Cloud (use case) and Editors’ Choice: Best HPC Response to a Societal Plight.

Globus Celebrates Exascale Day

October 18, 2024 | Susan Tussy

As we join in the celebration of Exascale Day on this 18th day of October 2024 Globus has helped researchers move over 2.8 exabytes of data. It took over ten years before we hit the one exabyte (EB) mark, just over four years to cross the 2 EB line, and just one year later, in 2024, we are rapidly approaching the 3 EB milestone.

Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - Saturday, November 2, 2024

October 16, 2024 | Brigitte Raumann

To accommodate required database upgrades, Globus services will be unavailable for up to one hour beginning at 9:00 am US Central on Saturday, November 2, 2024.

Globus Enables Experiment-Time Data Analysis

July 17, 2024

For over a decade, the ALCF and APS, both DOE Office of Science user facilities, have collaborated to build the infrastructure for integrated ALCF-APS research, including work to develop workflow management tools, and enable secure access to on-demand computing. The Globus platform and suite of tools enabled them to achieve their goals.

Globus Compute Multi-User Endpoints

June 25, 2024 | Kevin Hunter Kesling

A multi-user compute endpoint installation streamlines the user’s experience by automating the configuration and management of the compute endpoint agent. Further, while this work is geared toward administrators, non-administrators can also benefit. Let's dig in.

NOAA Deploys Globus in R&D labs to accelerate data transfers

May 30, 2024 | Susan Tussy

Today, NOAA’s on-premises R&D HPC systems, as well as multiple public cloud storage systems, are accessible via Globus.

GridFTP: A Brief History of Fast File Transfer

April 16, 2024 | John Bresnahan

How GridFTP became the de facto standard for data transfer in the scientific community

Continuing Globus support for CC* Awardees in 2024

March 06, 2024 | Vas Vasiliadis

Free Globus subscriptions available to all new CC* awardees.

Introducing Globus Subscription Management

February 20, 2024 | Vas Vasiliadis

The Globus subscription management service adds a new level of convenience for subscription administrators and managers.

Globus Participates in Three-Year Program to Modernize the Earth Systems Grid Federation

February 12, 2024 | Lee Liming

Globus is involved in a three-year program to upgrade the ESGF data nodes operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Globus excels at large-scale data access. So the nodes are being upgraded to use lab-wide storage with Globus access rather than custom storage and data access systems purchased and operated by the climate research teams.

New Open OnDemand feature makes it easier to interact with external data from your cluster

November 14, 2023 | Lee Liming

If you manage a compute cluster for researchers and your cluster has both Open OnDemand and Globus, a new Open OnDemand feature makes it easier for your researchers to transfer files and folders between your cluster and external storage systems.

Globus JavaScript SDK Now Available

November 10, 2023 | Joe Bottigliero

Globus is excited to announce the immediate availability of JavaScript SDK, a core package in our growing JavaScript ecosystem. The release today offers support for a wide set of our platform APIs, including Transfer (and sharing), GCS Manager, Groups (V2), and more.

Globus and ACCESS Simplify Data Management for Supercomputer Users

September 15, 2023 | Lee Liming

One year into the new NSF ACCESS program, Globus and ACCESS continue to work together to simplify the data management experience in the nation’s premier open science computing environment.

Globus Accelerates Data Access and Sharing in Program to Fight Urban Climate Challenges

September 13, 2023 | Susan Tussy

Globus made it easy to move the data off the instruments, and share it out, and also complimented the existing infrastructure. Now they could simply install Globus Connect Personal on the systems with a filesystem and storage, create an endpoint, and immediately share the data with others.

Automate your data management tasks to accelerate discovery

July 11, 2023 | Susan Tussy

Today’s researchers must automate some of their data management tasks as they utilize the newest instruments, many of which generate terabytes of data daily. Globus Flows does just that. It defines and automates simple as well as complex, scalable multi-step, human-in-the-loop data flows securely and reliably.

Support for Globus Connect Server version 4 ends on December 18, 2023

June 21, 2023 | Brigitte Raumann

Globus Connect Server version 5 represents a major evolutionary step in the Globus Connect Server architecture and the latest release has been in production since July, 2020. Support for Globus Connect Server version 4 will be discontinued on December 18, 2023.

Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - Saturday, March 11, 2023

February 17, 2023 | Brigitte Raumann

To accommodate required database upgrades, Globus services will be unavailable for up to two hours beginning at 10 am US Central on Saturday, March 11, 2023.

Globus Connect Server v4 will be deprecated July 31, 2023

January 26, 2023 | Brigitte Raumann

We closed out 2022 by releasing support for migration of all Globus Connect Server version 4 deployment configurations. Today we are announcing that Globus Connect Server version 4 will be...

Globus capabilities available to all users of NSF ACCESS cyberinfrastructure

January 03, 2023 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

When XSEDE, NSF’s national cyberinfrastructure from 2011 to 2021, was first established, it subscribed to the then-new Globus data transfer service to provide a universal data fabric spanning XSEDE resource...

Globus Flows Service Notice

January 03, 2023

The Globus Flows service will be briefly unavailable starting at 3:30 pm US Central on Saturday, December 3, 2022 in order to accommodate database upgrades. We anticipate this downtime will be less than ten minutes.

GenePattern users can leverage Globus transfers for analysis of large biomedical datasets

July 07, 2022 | Brigitte Raumann

With the increasing prevalence of new ‘omics technologies such as single-cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics, as well as multi-omic analysis methods that integrate datasets from different ‘omics domains, bioinformatics tools...

Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - June 18, 2022

June 03, 2022 | Brigitte Raumann

To accommodate database upgrades, Globus services will be unavailable for up to an hour beginning at 9 am US Central on Saturday, June 18, 2022. During this planned downtime, the...

Globus Support for the 2022 NSF CC* Program

May 17, 2022 | Vas Vasiliadis

We are delighted to see NSF announce the 2022 edition of the Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program. Over the years, this program has greatly enhanced research infrastructure at institutions of all...

Navigating Cloud Storage with Globus

February 18, 2022 | Greg Nawrocki

I was speaking with a colleague from another institution the other day. We were lamenting the lack of in-person events and actually missing traveling to visit colleagues at their home...

Scheduled and recurring transfers now available in the Globus web app

November 17, 2021 | Brigitte Raumann

Today we released Globus web app support for scheduled and regularly repeating transfers. Now scheduling a recurring transfer is as easy as scheduling a recurring meeting. Nightly backups to cloud...

Globus premium storage connectors: connecting researchers to their data

November 16, 2021 | Susan Tussy

Today’s researchers are faced with an increasingly complex storage landscape, and are implementing many different storage types and deployment models to meet their storage requirements. Globus is addressing this growing...

Migrating to Globus Connect Server Version 5

October 20, 2021 | Brigitte Raumann

Globus Connect Server version 5 (GCSv5) provides new capabilities and enhancements for both administrators and users and offers platform features that allow developers to build interesting data management solutions. Among...

Extra-fast Export: Globus Exceeds on Exascale Day by Accelerating Big-file Transfers

October 18, 2021 | Ian Foster

The petabytes produced and consumed by exascale computers must often be moved among elements of the international scientific infrastructure. Scientists have long relied upon Globus for efficient, reliable, and secure...

Globus CLI and SDK version 3 now available!

September 29, 2021 | Stephen Rosen

On March 7th of 2016, a couple of members of the Globus team started working on replacing the globusonline-transfer-api-client package. We debated what to call it. Was it the globus-client?...

Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - September 18 2021

September 10, 2021 | Brigitte Raumann

To accommodate database upgrades, Globus Auth and Transfer services will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes beginning at 10 am US Central on Saturday, September 18, 2021. During this...

Data Access Enhances Healthcare Research

August 23, 2021 | Susan Tussy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide leadership and direction for research programs aimed at enhancing health, lengthening life, and reducing illness and disability. Data is an important ingredient for—and...

Globus Helps Researchers Migrate Data on XSEDE's Comet Supercomputer

August 19, 2021 | Susan Tussy

During the month of July Globus transferred over 800 Terabytes of data on Comet, a dedicated NSF funded eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) cluster at the San Diego...

Globus Labs Participates in Two Student Summer Lab Programs

August 03, 2021 | Susan Tussy

Helping to Prepare our Researchers of Tomorrow Over the past few years Globus Labs has participated in two student summer lab programs at the University of Chicago - the Center...

Globus Enables National Cyberinfrastructures

July 07, 2021 | Susan Tussy

Researchers now more than ever need a highly scalable, friction-free data management solution to effectively address the complexities of conducting modern research.

State Of the Craft in Research Data Management

June 14, 2021 | Susan Tussy

Part V Data volumes are exploding, and the need to efficiently store and share data quickly, reliably and securely—along with making the data discoverable—is increasingly important. Deliberate planning and execution...

Exploring New Frontiers in Compute and Data Methods

June 07, 2021 | Susan Tussy

Mountains of data are being generated faster than ever before, and there is an ever-growing need to manage this exponential growth. In order to manage these massive volumes of data it is paramount to address not only raw compute requirements, but also the methods and techniques used to rapidly, reliably and securely discover, access, transfer, store, and re-use the data.

Globus Auth Issues One Billion Tokens

March 02, 2021 | Susan Tussy

Research Data Management. Simplified. In order to leverage the ever-increasing vast amounts of data, breaking down research silos and integrating research services becomes essential. Key to accomplishing this goal is...

Globus now supports recurring and scheduled transfers

January 29, 2021 | Brigitte Raumann

We’re excited to announce that Globus now supports recurring and scheduled transfers. The new feature allows you to submit a job that will reliably request periodic transfers with a defined...

The State of the Craft in Research Data Management - Part IV

December 16, 2020 | Susan Tussy

Part IV in a Five-Part Series Data volumes are exploding, and the need to efficiently store and share data quickly, reliably and securely—along with making the data discoverable—is increasingly important....

The State of the Craft in Research Data Management - Part III

November 30, 2020 | Susan Tussy

Part III in a Five-Part Series Data volumes are exploding, and the need to efficiently store and share data quickly, reliably and securely—along with making the data discoverable—is increasingly important....

The State of the Craft in Research Data Management

November 23, 2020 | Susan Tussy

Part II in a Five-Part Series Data volumes are exploding, and the need to efficiently store and share data quickly, reliably and securely—along with making the data discoverable—is increasingly important....

Scientists at Argonne Leverage Globus in "Sim-City" Modelling to Battle COVID-19

October 19, 2020 | Susan Tussy

Image: Courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory Scientists at Argonne National Lab have deployed some of the Nation’s most powerful compute resources, and developed large-scale epidemiological models to provide policy makers...

The State of the Craft in Research Data Management - Part I

October 05, 2020 | Susan Tussy

Part I in a Five-Part Series Data volumes are exploding, and the need to efficiently store and share data quickly, reliably and securely—along with making the data discoverable—is increasingly important....

Distributed Collaborators & Data: Solving the World's Big Problems

August 28, 2020 | Susan Tussy

Distributed Collaborators & Data: Solving the World’s Big Problems Big problems such as finding cures for COVID and disease, increasing food production, or fighting climate change, all involve a tremendous...

Globus Connect Server v5.4 Is Now Available

July 26, 2020 | Vas Vasiliadis

The highly anticipated v5.4 of Globus Connect Server is now available. This release continues our march towards a unified Globus Connect Server v5 platform that incorporates all relevant features from...

Globus in the age of Global Pandemics

March 20, 2020 | Greg Nawrocki

By now many of us are working from home, out of labs and offices, and off campus. For several this necessity was a bit of a surprise, finding out over...

January 2020: Globus Turns 10...18

January 15, 2020 | Ian Foster

Reflections from Globus Co-Founder Ian Foster 2020 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Globus service as we know it today. It also promises to be a monumental year for the...

Go Globus: To Infinity and Beyond

January 10, 2020

(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...

Globus CLI Batch Transfer Recipe

November 11, 2019

We’d like to share this walkthrough recently written up in GitHub for how to use the Globus CLI to list, filter, and batch submit a transfer from two locations into...

Remembering Steve Tuecke

November 04, 2019 | Ian Foster

It is with tremendous sadness that we share the news of the death of our dear friend and colleague Steve Tuecke on November 2, 2019. Our thoughts are especially with...

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...

Globus Publication: A New Approach

July 24, 2019 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue the data publication functions of the Globus service. This action only affects data publication functions—it does not affect core Globus services, such...

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...

Globus and the Path to Sustainability

May 09, 2019 | Lee Liming

It’s been more than twenty years since the first public release of Globus software. In this article originally posted on the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) blog Globus Senior Technical...

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

April 10, 2019

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...

XSEDE Uses Globus Auth for Web Single Sign-On

January 28, 2019 | Lee Liming

Used by researchers and students from all fields of science, XSEDE coordinates access to the National Science Foundation’s public supercomputing systems, such as Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Stampede2 and Pittsburgh...

New Globus Web App is Live

November 07, 2018 | Brigitte Raumann

Today we released the redesigned web app in production at app.globus.org! This replaces the old web app, which now is deprecated and will be discontinued in April 2019. Key resources:...

A Basic Globus Login for Apache Websites

October 15, 2018 | Lee Liming

One of the features Globus users appreciate is its user-friendly login mechanism. Globus allows users to login using Google, ORCID, or identities from any of the thousands of academic/research organizations...

Beta Release of New Globus Web App

October 11, 2018 | Brigitte Raumann

At GlobusWorld 2018, we announced ongoing work to redesign the Globus web app. We appreciate all the input we have received since then from users who tested the new web...

Announcing support for protected data management

August 31, 2018 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

I’m excited to announce that Globus services can now be used to manage protected data, including data regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The rich capabilities...

Using Globus in Jupyter Notebooks

May 30, 2018 | Lee Liming

My last post introduced the Jupyter “live notebook” environment and explained why our Globus team is working to make it easier to use Globus services in the Jupyter environment. Now,...

Ian Foster Presents at NCI ITCR18

May 24, 2018

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...

Updates to Globus Privacy Notice to Align with the GDPR

May 22, 2018 | Brigitte Raumann

As you may know, on May 25, 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will impose new obligations on organizations that control or process personally identifiable information about individuals...

Globus Connect Server 5.1 Now Available

May 17, 2018 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

Globus hosted a live webinar about the GCS5 release on June 7, 2018. To view the recorded session, click here. To access the slides, click here. Globus Connect Server is...

Deprecation of Hosted CLI

May 02, 2018 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

As we announced last week at GlobusWorld, the hosted CLI (legacy CLI) is currently deprecated and support for it will be discontinued on August 1, 2018. The hosted CLI has...

Storage Innovation Series: Cloud-Based Storage for Research Use Cases

April 18, 2018 | Steve Tuecke

In the sixth and final article in this series, we turn our attention from on-premise to cloud-based storage. I’ll be addressing four primary types of cloud storage: file storage, object...

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

March 28, 2018

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,...

Data Science and the Jupyter Notebook Environment

March 01, 2018 | Lee Liming

If you’re not already using Jupyter notebooks in your research or teaching, you might want to take a look. Our vision at Globus is to vastly improve the overall research...

Second year of Globus Auth, by the numbers

February 15, 2018 | Mattias Lidman

This week we are happy to celebrate the second birthday of Globus Auth, our authentication and authorization platform. Globus Auth now supports nearly 91,000 users from our 478 identity providers....

Storage Innovation Series: Making Tape Work – What You Need to Know

February 13, 2018 | Steve Tuecke

The venerable storage format, tape, is the topic of the fifth article in our Storage Innovation blog series. If you’re shocked by the mention of tape in a series about...

Globus now supports secure, scalable search using custom metadata

February 06, 2018 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

I am pleased to announce that the Globus platform now supports search capabilities, providing a secure and scalable solution for research data discovery. Discovery of research data relies on the...

January 2018: Looking Back and Ahead

January 30, 2018 | Ian Foster

New Year's Reflections from Globus Co-Founder Ian Foster Happy New Year! As 2017 fades into memory, I thought it might be interesting to reflect a bit on where we’ve been...

Storage Innovation Series: Turnkey On-Premise Storage: A Conversation with HGST

January 11, 2018 | Steve Tuecke

This is the 4th article in our Storage Innovation blog series. We’ve been discussing on-premise storage in the past two posts, and in the last post I talked about the...

Update and test your Globus Connect Server configuration

November 27, 2017 | Greg Nawrocki

Note: With the release of Globus Connect Server v5, this article contains outdated/inaccurate information. Please refer to this document for help with troubleshooting Globus Connect Server connectivity issues. If you...

Data retention policy will change on December 4, 2017

November 21, 2017 | Vas Vasiliadis

We are changing our policy governing retention of file transfer activity data. Starting December 4, 2017, we will remove summary data for file transfer tasks older than 3 months. While...

Storage Innovation Series: Roll Your Own Storage - Pros and Cons

November 06, 2017 | Steve Tuecke

This is the third in our Storage Innovations blog series. In our last post, we talked about the benefits of turnkey on-premise storage solutions. In today’s post I’ll be addressing...

Important: Update your Globus Connect Server configuration

October 25, 2017 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

Many of you may have seen our recent announcement that we are working towards making Globus data management solutions suitable for use with protected data and in HIPAA regulated environments....

Storage Innovation Series: Is “Turnkey” On-Premise Storage Possible?: A Conversation with SpectraLogic

October 19, 2017 | Steve Tuecke

This is the second in our Storage Innovations blog series, and the first post about on-premise solutions. In this article we’ve invited Matt Starr at Spectra Logic to provide insights...

Storage Innovation Series: The Current State of Campus Research Storage

October 09, 2017 | Steve Tuecke

In this first in a series of posts about what’s going on in big data storage, especially as relates to research centers, universities and labs, I’ll be talking about the...

Is free Globus going away?

September 22, 2017 | Vas Vasiliadis

A few months ago we announced that support for the open source Globus Toolkit is ending. Since then we've become aware of confusion regarding the details and impact of this...

The New Google Drive Connector: Notes from Product Management

September 20, 2017 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

We recently announced availability of Globus for Google Drive, adding another storage system that can be used with the Globus service. Globus for Google Drive was driven by customer demand...

Support for Globus Nexus authentication discontinued

July 28, 2017 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

In December 2016, we announced the deprecation of OAuth 2.0 service provided by Globus Nexus (also known as GOAuth), and since then we have worked with several user groups to...

Support for Open Source Globus Toolkit Ends January 2018

May 26, 2017 | Vas Vasiliadis

We are announcing that, starting in January 2018, the Globus team at the University of Chicago will no longer support the open source Globus Toolkit, except for its use with...

Introducing the SDK and CLI

April 14, 2017 | Stephen Rosen

Scripting With Globus Just Got Easy! curl "http://transfer.api.globus.org/..." ssh cli.globusonline.org "..." subprocess.Popen(["ssh", "cli.globusonline.org", "..."]) Say "hello" to the new Globus SDK and CLI! As of April, 2017, these products are...

First year of Globus Auth, by the numbers

February 13, 2017

Today we are happy to celebrate the 1-year birthday of Globus Auth, our authentication and authorization platform. In the year since its launch, Globus Auth has supported over 52,000 users,...

Deprecating Globus Nexus Authentication

December 07, 2016 | Teresa Gugerty

We are deprecating the OAuth 2.0 service provided by Globus Nexus (also known as GOAuth). Authentication interfaces in Globus Nexus are deprecated and will be discontinued April 30, 2017. Globus...

The new Globus CLI is available in a beta release

December 01, 2016 | Vas Vasiliadis

Several users have requested a native command line client to Globus services that can be installed on a local machine and used for simple scripting. We have just released a...

Announcing The GlobusWorld Tour

August 09, 2016 | Vas Vasiliadis

We're excited to announce that we're taking GlobusWorld on the road! Over the next few months we will be conducting a series of workshops at university campuses and national facilities...

Update Globus Connect Personal before August 9, 2016

July 22, 2016 | Vas Vasiliadis

The certificate used by Globus Connect Personal endpoints to securely connect to Globus expires on August 9, 2016. We released updated packages with new certificates a few weeks ago. If...

Removing deprecated scp command

July 17, 2016 | Vas Vasiliadis

Late last year we deprecated the scp command in the Globus command line interface (CLI), and provided features in the transfer command for parity. In the nine months since it...

glibc vulnerability: Action required for Linux users

February 17, 2016 | Vas Vasiliadis

On February 16, 2016 a new critical vulnerability CVE-2015-7547 - "glibc getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflow" was announced. We have reviewed the severity and impact to Globus services, partner services and...

Enhanced Login Mechanism Streamlines Access To Globus

February 11, 2016 | Vas Vasiliadis

We’re excited to announce changes to the way users access Globus that removes a lot of the “friction” currently associated with signing up and using the service. On February 13th,...

Sparkle Updater Issue Fixed: Action Required for Mac Users

February 10, 2016 | Vas Vasiliadis

Recently, a new vulnerability was discovered in the Sparkle Updater framework on Mac OS, that is used by Globus Connect Personal to check for, and install, updates. All Mac users...

Self-service usage reports now available to Globus subscribers

September 03, 2015 | Vas Vasiliadis

Globus subscribers now have direct access to usage reports for their managed endpoints via the Globus web interface (previously, subscribers had to request usage data from the Globus support team)....

Cancel and Pause/Resume tasks using the management console

August 21, 2015 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

We continue to build out premium capabilities for administering endpoints. The management console, which is now in production, was recently updated with features that allow endpoint administrators to cancel or...

100PB contest winner

June 30, 2015 | Vas Vasiliadis

The winner of our 100PB contest is Todd Raeker from the University of Michigan. Todd came closest in predicting the date and time at which Globus would pass the 100PB...

100 Petabytes moved!

June 29, 2015 | Vas Vasiliadis

Last week we passed a pretty cool milestone for the Globus service: 100 petabytes of data moved! Even in this age of "big data", 100PB is a big number. How...

NCAR uses Globus for RDA data distribution

June 24, 2015 | Vas Vasiliadis

We're thrilled to see NCAR using Globus to distribute data from their Research Data Archive (RDA). The RDA contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational...

Access Manager Role for Shared Endpoints

May 27, 2015 | Rachana Ananthakrishnan

A new feature that allows users to delegate management of shared endpoints was demonstrated at GlobusWorld 2015. This feature allows the creator of a shared endpoint to assign the access...

Case Study: Transfer of large datasets to Amazon S3

May 14, 2015 | Vas Vasiliadis

Knowledge Lab is a University of Chicago research center that seeks to leverage insights into the dynamics of knowledge creation and advances in large-scale computation to reimagine the scientific processes...

Sysadmins please note: Service update may affect some Globus Connect Server endpoints.

December 05, 2014 | Vas Vasiliadis

On Monday, December 8, 2014 we'll be updating the Globus file transfer service. As part of this update we're adding another IP address to the service that executes file transfer...

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...

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...

User of the Month, May 2014: Robert Edwards

May 27, 2014 | Laurel Wamsley

We are happy to announce that the Globus user of the month for May 2014 is Robert Edwards, a staff scientist in the Theory Group at Jefferson Lab, a Department...

GlobusWorld 2014: Keynote and some big ideas

April 23, 2014 | Laurel Wamsley

GlobusWorld 2014 took place in Chicago last week and it was a great success, drawing more than 120 HPC computing experts and scientists to Argonne National Lab for the three-day...

Dealing with the OpenSSL Vulnerability

April 08, 2014 | Vas Vasiliadis

By now, almost every system administrator on the planet is aware of the OpenSSL vulnerability (also known as the Heartbleed bug). Since its announcement we've been hard at work reviewing...

"January Effect" is alive and well

February 10, 2014 | Vas Vasiliadis

In the stock markets, the so-called "January Effect" is the increase in stock prices during the month of January that commentators attribute to investors buying stocks after having sold them...

User of the Month December 2013: Joel Brownstein

December 10, 2013 | Raj Kettimuthu

I am pleased to honor Joel Brownstein from the University of Utah as the Globus User of the Month for December 2013. Professor Joel Brownstein is the data archivist of...

Globus Connect Server Accepted for XSEDE Campus Bridging

November 18, 2013 | Vas Vasiliadis

XSEDE just announced that Globus Connect Server (formerly called Globus Connect Multiuser) is now accepted for use in Campus Bridging. Campus Bridging efforts in XSEDE aim to lower the barriers...

Users of the Month, August 2013: Brian Leu, Parth Sheth, and Albert Liu

August 19, 2013 | Laurel Wamsley

We had the pleasure of meeting this month’s honored users in person at the XSEDE13 Conference in San Diego last month. Brian Leu, Parth Sheth, and Albert Liu are all...

10,000 users and counting!

June 14, 2013 | Vas Vasiliadis

We just crossed the 10,000 mark for registered users and it made me think of the early days of Globus Online. Our first users were Shreyas Cholia, David Skinner, and...

Major update to Globus Connect Multiuser

June 10, 2013 | Vas Vasiliadis

We just released Globus Connect Multiuser version 2. This is a major update over the previous version, featuring: Native packaging: Native RPM and Debian packages for more than a dozen...

May 2013 User of the Month: Vadim Roytershteyn

May 06, 2013 | Raj Kettimuthu

It is my pleasure to announce that we have selected Vadim Roytershteyn as the user of the month for May 2013. Vadim is a plasma physicist at SciberQuest, Inc., where...

January 2013 User of the Month: Ann Syrowski

January 23, 2013

I am happy to announce that the user of the month for January 2013 is Ann Syrowski from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ann is a Research Professional in the...

December 2012 User of the Month: Kurt LaButti

December 28, 2012 | Raj Kettimuthu

It is my pleasure to announce that the user of the month for December 2012 is Kurt LaButti from the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute. Kurt has been in...

Use Test Endpoints to Anticipate Your Data Transfer Rates

November 30, 2012 | Raj Kettimuthu

ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) has deployed three anonymous read-only GridFTP servers for testing purposes. These GridFTP servers are available as endpoints on Globus Online: esnet#anl-diskpt1, esnet#bnl-diskpt1 and esnet#lbl-diskpt1. Globus Online...