Globus

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Introduction

The GACRC, on behalf of UGA, recently procured an institutional standard subscription to Globus for secure, reliable management of UGA's research data. Globus is a high-performance data-transfer platform that allows you to perform and/or automate:

  • Data transfers between servers in your group.
  • Data transfers between a server and your laptop.
  • Sharing data with researchers at other institutions.
  • Sharing data with the world.

Data transfers happen unattended and are faster than SCP/SFTP, data verification is on by default, and automatic restarts or continuation of transfers happen after a disruption.

Getting Started

If you are a first time user of Globus, you will need to create an Identity Account. At a minimum you will need to setup your identity using the University of Georgia organizational login in order to access UGA systems.

  • Go to https://globus.org and choose Login in the upper right corner.
  • Search for University of Georgia in the “Look-up your organization box”.
  • Choose continue and you will be forwarded to a UGA Single Sign-On (SSO) login page.


Detailed information with screenshots are provided by Globus at their Getting Started page.

Globus Connect Personal

it’s easy to set up your own Globus endpoint on a laptop or other personal system using Globus Connect Personal.

Globus Connect Personal can be downloaded from https://www.globus.org/globus-connect-personal

Setup an endpoint and collection on your own Mac, Linux, or Windows system

Setup an endpoint on Sapelo2 transfer node

Globus Connect Server

Documentation

Official Globus Documentation

Key Resource List

How-to