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Globus is definitely not dead[1], it has an active community with strong uptake in the Materials Science world (where I work), among others. The Globus folks ha
by reidacdc 7y ago
Globus is definitely not dead[1], it has an active community with strong uptake in the Materials Science world (where I work), among others. The Globus folks have a repo for many popular Linux distros, it's reasonably straightforward to get started. (I'm a user of it, not a developer or necessarily an advocate.)
It's not free for "managed" (Enterprise) applications, though, which is what the OP seems to be looking for, and I'm not sure it's the best choice for high-speed.
Something that I think is free is the CERN FTS [2], which can use a GridFTP back-end, so possibly you can roll your own high-speed big-data infrastructure that way.
[1] https://www.globus.org https://www.globus.org
[2] https://fts.web.cern.ch/ https://fts.web.cern.ch/
- CaliforniaKarl 7y agoI concur that Globus is definitely not dead! We're transferring 10s to 100s of TB per month with it. Globus is continuing to maintain GridFTP for this purpose, as part of Globus Connect Server and Globus Connect Personal, and it will happily saturate a multi-Gbps link. And personally, I'd like to see more people getting a Globus subscription. It's cost-effective when compared to tools like Aspera, and helps fund the development of Globus software and features.