Efficient Research Data Management Using Globus SaaS

Globus is software-as-a-service that is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for managing research data on a wide variety of HPC and campus computing resources. While usage among service providers affiliated with Compute... [ view full abstract ]

Globus is software-as-a-service that is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for managing research data on a wide variety of HPC and campus computing resources. While usage among service providers affiliated with Compute Canada continues to grow, there are still many Canadian institutions and investigators who are either not aware of the capabilities and benefits Globus can provide, or have limited-scope deployments and need assistance to expand usage beyond simple file transfer tasks.

We will present an overview of the key features of the Globus service and how it may be used to deliver robust research data management services that span campus systems, national cyberinfrastructure, and public cloud resources. Globus is installed in research computing centers at hundreds of universities worldwide, as well as many US national facilities and federal agencies - we will draw on experiences from this broad user base to highlight the challenges in delivering scalable research data management services, as well as key use cases and implementation takeaways. This presentation will include a live demonstration of file transfer, sharing, and data publication, as well as an overview of the requirements for making a system accessible via Globus. In particular, we will focus on ease of use for non-technical end-users, and minimizing overhead for system administrators tasked with deploying Globus endpoints on their storage systems.