There's a free alternative I have to talk up any time Aspera gets mentioned, and that's GridFTP by way of Globus Connect.[1] It's pitched as a way to move massi

There's a free alternative I have to talk up any time Aspera gets mentioned, and that's GridFTP by way of Globus Connect.[1] It's pitched as a way to move massive quantities of research data around, but it's free for personal/academic use and dead simple to set up. There's a standalone command line client too [2], but it requires a bit more knowledge of how to tweak the settings, while Aspera and the Globus client does a lot of auto ranging stuff. In any case, both of them will easily get you line speed from your slowest node. [1]: https://www.globus.org/ https://www.globus.org/ [2]: http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/data/gridftp/quickstart.html http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/data/gridftp/quickstart.ht...