News Archive, January 2026

Argonne's upgraded X-ray source being linked with nation's top supercomputers to handle increased data flow

January 26, 2026   |  Argonne National Laboratory  |  Joe Harmon

Polaris is joined by two other DOE-supported supercomputers — Perlmutter at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory — in a project to develop automated data workflows for next-generation X-ray science. Globus automates the flow of XPCS data between beamlines and supercomputers like Polaris to ensure results are delivered in near-real time.

Building Research Infrastructure at Scale

January 26, 2026   |  CODERLEGION  |  Tom Smith

Research computing faces a unique architectural challenge: how do you build a platform that works across institutional boundaries, handles petabyte-scale data movement, supports diverse storage systems, and maintains fine-grained security...

Globus: The Invisible Infrastructure Behind Global Research Data Exchange

January 27, 2026   |  vmblog.com  |  David Marshall

At the 66th edition of the IT Press Tour in Palo Alto, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Executive Director of Globus at the University of Chicago, walked a room full of journalists through something most data center professionals probably have never heard of-yet, something that's become absolutely foundational to modern research. Her message was simple but profound: for the past three decades, Globus has quietly grown into the backbone connecting research institutions, national laboratories, and supercomputing facilities worldwide