For more than 50 years, HPC has supported tremendous advances in all areas of science. But densely-populated communities can more easily support subscription-based commodity networks and energy infrastructure that make it more affordable for urban universities to engage globally. Research centers based in sparsely-populated regions are extremely disadvantaged. HPCwire describes how researchers in far-flung places are dealing with these challenges, and how Globus facilitates fast, reliable file transfer, irrespective of distance and network conditions.
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 pros and cons of “rolling your own” storage. In this post, we’ll have a discussion with Linda Zhou, Director of HPC and Life Sciences Solutions at HGST, about turnkey private cloud storage systems and the benefits of approaching storage this way.
A Conversation with HGST HPC Director Linda Zhou
[Steve Tuecke] To begin with, Linda, give us a quick summary of what we need to know about HGST.
At the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit, Globus Professional Services Manager Rick Wagner will be presenting in a session on "Science Gateways and their Impact on Research and Scholarship Nationally and Internationally" on Monday, May 7 at 10:30AM-11:45AM. Speakers in the session include:
ESnet’s Petascale DTN Project Speeds up Data Transfers between Leading HPC Centers
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science operates three of the world’s leading supercomputing centers, where massive data sets are routinely imported, analyzed, used to create simulations and exported to other sites. Fortunately, DOE also runs a networking facility, ESnet (short for Energy Sciences Network), the world’s fastest network for science, which is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
We're presenting a series of Globus tutorials and developer workshops across the US, showing the research community how to leverage the Globus platform to build applications and accelerate their research through automation. If you're a NYSERNet member institution, we hope to see you at our tour stop in Syracuse!
Location: Oswego Metro Center, 100 South Salina Street, Syracuse, NY 13202
February 8, 2018 - 12:30 PST to February 9, 2018 - 3:00 PST
We're presenting a series of Globus tutorials and developer workshops across the US, showing the research community how to leverage the Globus platform to build applications and accelerate their research through automation. If you're at Stanford University or any other institution in the California system, we hope to see you at our tour stop in Stanford:
Location: Redwood Hall, G19, 243 Panama St, Stanford, CA 94305
As we recently announced, we are working towards making Globus suitable for use with protected data and in HIPAA regulated environments. In preparation for this—and to support new features in Globus Connect Server version 5—the Globus service will undergo an upgrade on Saturday, December 9th, and will be unavailable from 10:00AM to 2:00PM CST.
In November's data center storage round-up from Chris Mellor at The Register, the Globus and Western Digital (WDC) partnership was highlighted:
WDC is partnering with Globus to integrate Globus's research data management software with WDC's ActiveScale object-based storage (OBS) system. Globus has produced an ActiveScale connector and aims to store Big Data analytics data on the WDC disk archive box.
If you are responsible for managing one or more of your organization’s Globus endpoints, you may need to take action on or before December 9, 2017 to ensure that your Globus endpoints continue to work. At your earliest convenience, please read https://www.globus.org/blog/important-update-your-globus-connect-server-configuration and ensure you make the necessary updates to your firewall configuration, if applicable.
