Overview of Globus
Globus is a non-profit service for secure, reliable research data management developed and operated by the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, supported by funding from the Department of Energy, NSF, and the NIH. With Globus, subscribers can move, share, & discover data via a single interface – whether your files live on a supercomputer, lab cluster, tape archive, public cloud or your laptop, you can manage this data from anywhere, using your existing identities, via just a web browser.
Globus started as a pure transfer tool with two strengths:
- Fast transfers over good networks
- Robust transfers over flaky networks
Globus now has the add functionality of:
- Data sharing and flexible access control
- Identity management
- A web GUI, scriptable command line tool, and powerful API