Learn how others are using Globus.

Browse this page for examples of Globus usage based on organization, project, field of research, or Globus capability.

Simplifying Research with Globus for Box

  • Field: Artificial Intelligence
  • Organization(s): Argonne National Laboratory
  • Globus capability: Globus for Box Connector, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The Box connector feature makes my research much easier. Without it, here is my process to get data from Box (that my collaborators shared with me) to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility/General Computing Environment for AI:
    1. Turn on Argonne VPN.
    2. Use Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect to windows.cels.anl.gov (upload bandwidth of home network is less than 10% of download, thus faster to use a machine that sits in the Argonne network).
    3. Turn on Box client to download data to the Windows machine.
    4. Turn on Globus Connect Personal (GCP) on the same machine.
    5. Go to globus.org to move the data from my GCP endpoint to ALCF.
    6. Wait ...and enjoy data :-)

    Now, I only need step 5! Globus directly moves data from Box to wherever it can be digested.

  • For more information: Learn more about the Globus for Box connector.

CryoEM Data Management at Case Western Reserve University

  • Field: Life Sciences
  • Organization(s): Case Western Reserve University
  • Globus capability: Globus sharing/data distribution
  • Usage summary: CryoEM image data from the Titan Krios microscope has been transferred and shared using Globus among cryoEM users within and across institutes around the US. The Globus CLI (command line interface) has been used for automation and sync'ing data from the microscope as it gets generated. The solution integrates Globus with CWRU's High Performance Computing infrastructure and a Panasas storage system.
  • For more information: Watch a short video on the cryoEM initiative.

Data Sharing in the NIH Intramural Program

  • Field: Life Sciences
  • Organization(s): National Institutes of Health
  • Globus capability: Globus sharing
  • Usage summary: The HPC facility at the National Institutes of Health's Intramural campus has had a Globus endpoint since 2012. Globus is used routinely for data transfer along with other methods, but the Globus data-sharing capabilities in particular have been enthusiastically embraced by the NIH HPC users.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about Globus sharing.

Molecular Data in Google Drive

  • Field: Chemistry and Machine Learning
  • Organization(s): University of Chicago, Argonne National Lab
  • Globus capability: Globus for Google Drive connector, Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: A group in Japan needed to share a set of 221M molecular calculations, clocking in at 830GB, with collaborators at UC/ANL. This dataset represents the largest compilation of molecular calculations to date, with a broad set of machine learning opportunities ranging from drug discovery to identification of novel molecules for organic electronics. By using the Globus for Google Drive connector, they were able to easily make the data available in Google Drive via fire-and-forget transfer -- they estimate this method was at least 10x faster than any other means of sharing the data.
  • For more information: View a screen shot of the transfer details or learn more about Globus for Google Drive.

DLHub: Supporting Machine Learning in Materials Science

  • Field: Materials Sciences
  • Organization(s): University of Chicago, Argonne National Lab
  • Globus capability: Globus platform
  • Usage summary: The Data and Learning Hub for Science (DLHub) serves as an automated facilitator and interconnection point for ML models and associated data transformation and analysis tools. It allows researchers to describe and publish such tools in ways that support discovery and reuse; run published tools over the network (with tools executed on a scalable hosted infrastructure); and link models, other tools, and data sources into complete ML/AI pipelines that can themselves be published, discovered, and run. DLHub relies on Globus services for data management.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about DLHub.

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) at Oak Ridge National Lab

  • Field: Earth and Space Sciences, Climate Science
  • Organization(s): Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Globus capability: Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data Center (ADC) is a long-term archive and distribution facility for various ground-based, aerial and model data products in support of atmospheric and climate research. Users employ Globus for transferring terabytes of data from ADC to their home institutions, and ADC is using Globus for its operations including transferring data between clusters as well as disaster recovery.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about Globus transfer.

Secure Health Sciences Research Informatics at University of Pittsburgh

  • Field: Life Sciences
  • Organization(s): University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus sharing, Globus for protected data
  • Usage summary: UPMC's Research Informatics Office (RIO) is responsible for clinical data extraction, transformation, honest brokering, and provisioning for hundreds of large and small research projects, as well as the infrastructure for HuBMAP in partnership with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. To efficiently support these activities, particularly including protected data sharing with many investigators across multiple institutions, RIO has adopted the Federated Identity, Data Movement, Search and Group Management features of Globus.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld, get details on Globus for protected data, or learn more about developing portals with Globus.

HACC Cosmology Simulation Data Portal

  • Field: Cosmology
  • Organization(s): Argonne National Lab
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: Scientists at Argonne are developing a Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC) data portal to provide easy access to simulation products and analysis capabilities for the world’s cosmologists. The portal will use Petrel, a research data service at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), offering fast data transfer and authentication via Globus.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about HACC.

LRZ Data Science Storage Service

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: LRZ's Data Science Storage (DSS) service solves the demands and requirements of data intensive science with a data-centric management approach built with Globus. With DSS, LRZ researchers can store, access, transfer and share data worldwide.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about LRZ's DSS service.

Data Distribution for European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

  • Field: Life Sciences
  • Organization(s): European Bioinformatics Institute
  • Globus capability: Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: EBI is one of the world's leading providers of life science data to a global community. Moving data from where it is generated, to and from archives and to where the user wishes to analyze it, is supported via Globus.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about Globus transfer.

Enabling the Open Storage Network

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): National Science Foundation
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus Auth, Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The Open Storage Network (OSN) is creating a storage appliance which will read and write from disks at speed, with a capacity of about 1.5PB. In conjunction with the National Data Service and John Hopkins University, Globus is helping to build a distributed storage platform for OSN, based on object storage with Globus Auth federated identity authorization to promote cross-institutional data sharing for OSN users.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about the Open Storage Network.

South Dakota Data Store (SDDS)

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): University of South Dakota
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus Auth, Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The South Dakota Data Store (SDDS) provides over 1.2PB of capacity across a Sharing Tier for high-reliability, high-availability, network-accessible storage; and an Archival Tier hosted on a magnetic tape library for long-term offsite archival-grade storage. Globus provides the necessary authentication, data sharing, and transfer capabilities to make SDDS a truly statewide resource.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about SDDS.

Brain Mapping and Neurobiology

  • Field: Life Sciences, Neuroscience
  • Organization(s): The University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Globus capability: Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The Kasthuri lab at the University of Chicago and Argonne is pioneering new techniques for brain mapping of the fine structure of the nervous system – 'connectomics' and 'projectomics'. They hope to help answer questions like: how do brains learn as they grow up? And how do brains differ across individuals and across species? And how can we reverse engineer brain function in our own computers and robots? Globus is used by these researchers for file transfer and sharing.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or read a news article about this work.

The University of Illinois' Nano-manufacturing Hub

  • Field: Manufacturing, Mechanical Science and Engineering, Materials Science
  • Organization(s): University of Illinois, NCSA
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The University of Illinois' Nano-manufacturing hub is working to implement a global, community-curated database of graphene growth recipes. They have created an application inside a HubZero instance which allows users to capture their recipes along with SEM images and spectrographic analysis of the sample, which is then submitted to MDF, the Materials Data Facility built on the Globus platform, where additional metadata is extracted and the dataset indexed with Globus Search.
  • For more information: View the slides from GlobusWorld or learn more about the Nano-manufacturing Hub.

Quantum Predictions at DOE's CPSFM

  • Field: Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Materials Science
  • Organization(s): Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Lab, Argonne National Lab
  • Globus capability: Data management and file transfer
  • Usage summary: Scientists at the DOE's Center for Predictive Simulations of Functional Materials (CPSFM) is focused on taking quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) modeling to the next level. Scientists use Globus to publish their findings to the Materials Data Facility at Argonne and to move data between DOE supercomputer centers, as well as between individual supercomputers and user's own workstations.
  • For more information: Read the latest from CPSFM or learn more about Materials Data Facility.

DOE's KBase Program

  • Field: Life Sciences, Systems Biology
  • Organization(s): Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Globus capability: Data management and file transfer
  • Usage summary: KBase is a data platform for the biological sciences, promising to improve the face of scientific analysis and publication. One capability of KBase is to gather all scientific data related to a particular study in one place (facilitated by the Globus data management and file transfer system), making it easy for future researchers to track this data down and build upon existing work.
  • For more information: Read the Argonne article or learn more about KBase.

ATLAS Experiment with Cori and Theta

Petrel Data Service at Argonne

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s):Argonne National Laboratory
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, sharing, transfer
  • Usage summary: The Petrel Data Service allows Argonne researchers to store large-scale datasets and very easily share those datasets with collaborators, without requiring local account management. The service is developed and operated via a collaboration between ALCF and Globus, and it leverages Globus for data management.
  • For more information: Read the user story or visit the Petrel site.

IceCube Collaboration

  • Field: Earth and Space Sciences
  • Organization(s): University of Wisconsin, NERSC, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Globus capability: Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: IceCube, the world's largest neutrino detector, uses Globus to archive its data for long term preservation. Users transfer data with Globus from Madison, Wisconsin to storage locations at NERSC in California and at DESY in Berlin.
  • For more information: Learn more about IceCube, or read about the latest breakthrough discovery from IceCube: tracing a "ghost particle that traveled 3.7 billion light-years to Earth.

Using Shared Endpoints for Data Publication at Oak Ridge

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)
  • Globus capability: Globus sharing
  • Usage summary: ORNL developed a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) service where the data resides at ORNL Globus is used to let users construct their data, workflow, and additional info before submitting to be published. They are also using multiple shared endpoints to construct and retrieve DOIs, which are searchable multiple ways including datacite and ORNL's internal service.
  • For more information: See slides from GlobusWorld talk or get info about Globus sharing.

Tiered Data Storage at University of Michigan

  • Field: General, Life Sciences
  • Organization(s): University of Michigan
  • Globus capability: Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: Globus is the glue by which UMich moves data between services. It is their most recommended way to move data in bulk between services. In addition, their Bioinformatics Core uses Globus Connect to share data with clients.
  • For more information: See slides from GlobusWorld talk or get info about Globus sharing.

National Data Service Adds Cloud-Based Interactive Compute Capabilities

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): National Data Service (NDS), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus Auth, Globus publication
  • Usage summary: The National Data Service's Labs Workbench platform, built on Globus, is a scalable, web-based system intended to support turnkey deployment of encapsulated data management and analysis tools to support exploratory analysis and development on cloud resources that are physically "near" the data and associated high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
  • For more information: See slides from GlobusWorld talk or get info about the Globus platform.

Serving Neuroscientific Studies at Massachusetts General Hospital

  • Field: Life Sciences, Neuroscience
  • Organization(s): Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
  • Globus capability: Globus publication, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: Globus facilitates intra-project data movement for neuroscientific studies across multiple acquisition sites, with eventual data publication at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • For more information: See slides from the GlobusWorld talk or get info about Globus publication or transfer.

Working with Research Data at Stanford

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): Stanford University
  • Globus capability: Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: Stanford users Globus to simplify working with data and to accelerate transfers.
  • For more information: See slides from GlobusWorld talk.

Modernizing Data Workflows at Harvard

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): Harvard University
  • Globus capability: Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: Harvard moves over 750 TB a year with Globus, in projects ranging from species migration studies to image processing.
  • For more information: See slides from GlobusWorld talk or get info about Globus transfer.

University of Saskatchewan's Research Storage Service

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): University of Saskatchewan (USASK)
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus publication
  • Usage summary: USASK's research storage service "DATASTORE" provides access via Globus for speed, automation, and more complex data management, as well as for connection with Compute Canada. They have also integrated Globus with their identity provider and created a customized USASK look-and feel login page.
  • For more information: See slides from GlobusWorld talk or learn about building portals with the Globus platform.

Terra Basic Fusion Project at NCSA / Blue Waters

  • Field: Climate
  • Organization(s): National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
  • Globus capability: Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: We downloaded 1.3 PB of L1B Terra data from various data centers to the Blue Waters system. Then we used Globus to integrate massive-scale processing between archive storage and computational resources to produce 2.5 PB of a new fused weather data product.
  • For more information: Learn more about Globus at NCSA Blue Waters or get info about Globus transfer.

Rice University Using Globus for Google Drive

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): Rice University
  • Globus capability: Globus sharing, Globus transfer, Globus for Google Drive connector
  • Usage summary: To facilitate reliable data movement and sharing for Rice researchers, Rice subscribes to Globus for research data management. Rice uses Globus for file transfer and sharing, and they also utilize the Globus for Google Drive connector to simplify data access and archiving with Google Drive.
  • For more information: Read the user story or learn more about Globus for Google Drive.

CyberShake Project for Predicting Earthquake Impact

  • Field: Earth Sciences
  • Organization(s): Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), NCSA Blue Waters, ORNL Titan
  • Globus capability: Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: Researchers used Globus to transfer intermediate results between Titan and Blue Waters for a CyberShake project. Workflows ran for nearly a month, and during that time, Globus was used to transfer over 700TB between OLCF and NCSA.
  • For more information: Learn more about CyberShake or Globus for file transfer.

Argonne Leverages Globus in Machine Learning Project to Build Lab-Wide Data Service

  • Field: General, Materials Science
  • Organization(s): Argonne National Lab, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
  • Globus capability: Globus platform
  • Usage summary: Scientists at the Data Science and Learning Division (DSL) at Argonne National Laboratory have undertaken a project to develop a lab service for interactive, scalable, reproducible data science, leveraging machine learning methods to reduce simulation costs and increase data quality and value for researchers. As a testbed for developing this service, project leaders collaborated with the ALCF, Materials Data Facility, and Globus in a project leveraging machine learning to improve model development.
  • For more information: Read the user story or learn more about the Globus platform.

ORNL Science DMZ and Bridging CADES Workflows

  • Field: General, Climate, Genetics
  • Organization(s): Oak Ridge National Lab, OLCF
  • Globus capability: Globus Platform, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The Compute and Data Environment for Science (CADES) at Oak Ridge National Lab provides compute and data infrastructure resources for scientific discovery via a Science DMZ architecture based on Globus. Use case examples involve Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, where Globus is used for simplified transfer and to create advanced workflows; the CrossBOW Project for big data operational workflows; and Genetics research.
  • For more information: See slides from the GlobusWorld talk or learn more about the Globus Platform.

NCAR RDA

  • Field: Earth Sciences
  • Organization(s): National Center for Atmospheric Research's Research Data Archive
  • Globus capability: Globus platform, Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: Since late 2014, the Research Data Archive (RDA) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has used Globus services to support its online data portal. During this time, users have transferred more than 1.1 petabytes of data from RDA collections. The Science DMZ network in place at NCAR allows Globus to deliver scalable, efficient, and reliable data transfers out of the RDA. In addition, NCAR advises that Globus "provides much more robust and reliable transfer capabilities than standard web download options."
  • For more information: Get the GlobusWorld slides, see the tip posted from NCAR RDA or learn more about Globus sharing and transfer.

Machine Learning in the Cloud at DICE Lab

  • Field: General
  • Organization(s): Clemson University
  • Globus capability: Globus Platform, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The Data Intensive Computing Ecosystems (DICE) lab at Clemson University is utilizing CloudyCluster for scientific computations in the area of scalable machine learning, and in particular, in topic modeling. One recent implementation by Google, PLDA+, uses message passing in a distributed cluster environment to speed up the calculation of topics in a very large corpus (100’s of GB); data was moved over Internet2 to the Amazon cloud.
  • For more information: See slides from the GlobusWorld talk or learn more about the Globus Platform.

Globus Auth and the S3 Connector with XSEDE and Jetstream

  • Field: Earth Sciences
  • Organization(s): Texas A&M, Louisiana State University, San Diego Supercomputing Center
  • Globus capability: Globus Platform, Globus Auth, Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The XSEDE community and the Jetstream cloud service provider are using Globus Auth to simplify and streamline user authentication and add support for identity linking: especially campus credentials. Jetstream also offers object storage that’s compatible with Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3), and researchers can easily and reliably move research datasets into and out of Jetstream’s object storage using the Globus S3 storage connector.
  • For more information: See slides from the GlobusWorld talk, get details on the Globus S3 connector, or learn more about the Globus Platform and Globus Auth.

SIMULOCEAN Science Gateway

  • Field: Earth Sciences
  • Organization(s): Texas A&M, Louisiana State University, San Diego Supercomputing Center
  • Globus capability: Globus Platform, Globus Auth, Globus sharing, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: A research scientist at Texas A&M has been working to deploy a containerized coastal model on XSEDE resources, work that started at LSU. The goal is to develop and deploy enhancements into the SIMULOCEAN science gateway, integrating new Docker features of Bridges and Globus capabilities for authentication, file transfer and sharing. The PI also collaborated with SDSC.
  • For more information: Learn about SIMULOCEAN, get details from the XSEDE16 poster, hear a talk from an ECSS symposium, or learn more about the Globus Platform.

NHERI DesignSafe-CI

  • Field: Earth Sciences
  • Organization(s): Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Globus capability: Globus Platform, Globus transfer
  • Usage summary: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) is a distributed, multi-user, national facility funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For moving large volumes of data, or large numbers of files (>50) or folders, the Globus tools are the recommended way of moving data in and out of NHERI's DesignSafe data depot.
  • For more information: Read about Globus in action for DesignSafe or learn more about the Globus Platform.

Georgia Tech Astrophysics Research at NCSA

Cornell Biotech Data Lifecycle Management, Onsite and in Amazon S3

  • Field: Biotechnology
  • Organization(s): Cornell University
  • Globus capability: File sharing, file transfer
  • Usage summary: Globus facilitates file transfer for data lifecycle management, from generation to analysis platforms to archive. We use Globus to share data with users of our facility, both from our centrally managed bioinformatics infrastructure or investigator’s own machines. We also use Amazon S3 endpoints to move data for archival storage; once in S3, lifecycle rules move the data to Amazon Glacier.
  • For more information: Visit the Cornell Biotechnology Resource Center, find out about Globus sharing, or learn about the Globus for Amazon S3.

Materials Data Facility (MDF) Portal

Epilepsy Research at Stanford's Soltesz Lab and NCSA

  • Field: Life Sciences
  • Organization(s): Soltesz Lab at Stanford Medical Center, NCSA
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: The researcher on this project uses Globus frequently for transferring data between lab computers and Blue Waters, and between Blue Waters and XSEDE supercomputers like SDSC Comet.
  • For more information: Read the user story or the NCSA article, or try out Globus file transfer

OSiRIS Project for Distributed, Multi-Institutional Storage

COSMIC2 Cryo-EM Project

  • Field: Life Sciences, Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM)
  • Organization(s): Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI), University of California, San Diego (UCSD) 
  • Globus capability: Globus Platform, Globus Auth, File transfer
  • Usage summary: Used Globus Auth to manage user identities and access to resources, so scientists can use existing login (XSEDE, their university, Google, etc.) to access the gateway. Also used Globus to move terabyte-sized datasets to the gateway, so scientists can analyze it using the XSEDE HPC resource Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SCSD) and then review results on the portal.
  • For more information: Get the GlobusWorld slides, read the SGCI story, learn about the Globus platform or Globus Auth, try out Globus file transfer or get resources for building a research data portal

GPU-accelerated Deep Learning for Gravitational Wave Discovery

  • Field: Geophysics, astrophysics
  • Organization(s): National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
  • Globus capability: File transfer, data archiving
  • Usage summary: Scientists ran numerical relativity simulations on Blue Waters that they then archived using Globus; they also used Globus to transfer the extracted simulations, obtained using POWER on Blue Waters, to the GPUs they used to train and test the neural nets.
  • For more information: Read the NCSA news release or the Globus user story or try out Globus file transfer

CMIP6 Climate Study with Berkeley Lab and ESnet

NCAR/UCAR Data Transfer and Sharing

  • Field: Climate
  • Organization(s): National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  • Globus capability: File transfer, file sharing, data distribution
  • Usage summary: The Computational Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NCAR recommends using Globus to transfer files between systems—for example, between XSEDE facilities and the resources that CISL manages. NCAR also uses Globus to distribute data from their Research Data Archive (RDA).
  • For more information: Visit the CISL Globus page or the NCAR blog, try out Globus file transfer or learn about Globus sharing

Kilts Center Distribution Platform for Nielsen Marketing Data

Building Compute Canada's Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)

Data Movement and Archiving at WVU

NCSA File Sharing for Blue Waters Projects

  • Field: Multiple
  • Organization(s): National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - Blue Waters
  • Globus capability: File transfer, file sharing
  • Usage summary: Blue Waters at NCSA uses Globus sharing, both active sharing for current allocations and community sharing for prior projects, so users can quickly, effectively, and securely share data sets with their research community or the broader public
  • For more information: Read the user story

MSI HPC Data Archiving and Digital Preservation

  • Field: Multiple
  • Organization(s): University of Minnesota's Supercomputing Institute (MSI)
  • Globus capability: Globus for Black Pearl connector
  • Usage summary: MSI implemented Spectra Logic Black Pearl storage with the Globus connector to solves the problem of costly and complex approaches to digital preservation and archiving for hundreds of terabytes of critical research data
  • For more information: Get the GlobusWorld slides or read the user story

Building an Advanced Crop Analytics Portal

  • Field: Agriculture, Energy
  • Organization(s): Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture Phenotyping Reference Platform (TERRA-REF)
  • Globus capability: Globus Platform
  • Usage summary: Used Globus to build portal which will provide open access to huge datasets that will guide breeding decisions, facilitate collaboration, and allow unprecedented data sharing
  • For more information: Visit the TERRA-REF site

UC Boulder Oceanography Study

  • Field: Earth Sciences - Oceanography
  • Organization(s): University of Colorado Boulder, National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Used Globus for regular movement of massive data files (~87 GB per snapshot) from NICS to UCAR, or to a user’s local desktop or laptop, with average increase of 160x for download times to a laptop
  • For more information: Read the user story

NERSC Data Movement and Archiving

  • Field : Energy
  • Organization(s): National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
  • Globus capability: File transfer, Globus Platform
  • Usage summary: As part of an initiative to make data and computing services available online, NERSC enabled Globus as a preferred method of data movement, archiving ad web-based syncing for the thousands of scientists and researchers who use the center on a daily basis
  • For more information: Read the user story

U Chicago Next-Gen Sequencing 

  • Field : Life Sciences, Genomics, Sequencing
  • Organization(s): University of Chicago Genomics Facility
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Technicians used Globus to move sequencing results data to customers
  • For more information: Read the user story

STAR Experiment at Brookhaven Lab

  • Field : Physics, Geophysics
  • Organization(s): Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory; NERSC
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Simplified the file transfer process so users could easily move hundreds of GB of data between STAR facilities at RHIC and NERSC, with minimal setup.
  • For more information: Read the user story

Genetic Sequencing at UCLA Semel Institute

  • Field : Life Sciences, Genomics, Sequencing
  • Organization(s): Semel Institute's Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at UCLA
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Globus allowed researchers to achieve much higher transfer rates for data movement between the lab's mini cluster and the Hoffman2 cluster at UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), enabling the etam to reach their goal of sequencing 723 vervets with cumulative data totaling 18TB.
  • For more information: Read the user story

NYU Med Center Cloud Data Storage

  • Field: Life Sciences, Bioinformatics
  • Organization(s): High Performance Computing Facility of the New York University (NYU) Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, NYU Langone Medical Center
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Used Globus to transfer data to Amazon EC2 to get large data sets into the cloud environment where researchers could access and use it.
  • For more information: Read the Amazon Case Study

MIMD Lattice Computation (MILC) Research Collaboration

  • Field: Physics
  • Organization(s): Numerous institutions including Indiana University, Washington University, University of Utah, Syracuse, Rutgers, University of Arizona, Argonne National Lab, and Fermilab
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Used Globus to simplify the process of moving big data around to various project supercomputers where time had been allocated (e.g. Kraken, Athena, Lincoln, Longhorn, Franklin, Intrepid and Hopper. Globus also accelerated data movement, e.g. in one case transferring one hundred 7-gigabyte files in just 90 minutes (a process that would have take over 3 days with scp).
  • For more information: Read the user story

Renewable Energy Project at Cornell

  • Field: Energy
  • Organization(s): Cornell University; National Institute of Computational Sciences (NICS)
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Moved terabytes of data between Kraken and Spur (a visualization system) in only hours.
  • For more information: Read the user story

Data Movement and Authorization Management at NCSA

  • Field: Multiple
  • Organization(s): National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Systems engineer uses Globus for all transfers, citing speed, consistent interface, reliability.
  • For more information: Read the user story

University of Exeter Campuswide Data Movement

  • Field: Multiple
  • Organization(s): University of Exeter
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: The University of Exeter has enabled their researchers to use the Globus platform. Users log in with their existing credentials or Globus ID and Globus (with Globus Auth) takes care of the rest.
  • For more information: Visit the Exeter Globus Web App

Climate Research at U Miami

  • Field: Earth Sciences, Climate
  • Organization(s): University of Miami
  • Globus capability: File transfer
  • Usage summary: Used Globus to make global climate simulations manageable by both accelerating and simplifying file transfer between remote sites, e.g. a transfer from San Diego to Miami in 5 minutes which would have taken almost 17 hours by sftp/rsync.
  • For more information: Read the user story