Hi Ben, Answering just as another user, it sounds like you are trying to interact with a grid-enabled site (TACC) and want fast, flexible file transfers to client machines to improve your workflow.
For this purpose, you may want to consider use of Globus Online and the Globus Connect client. Pre-built executables are available for Linux, Mac and Windows and are easy to install. It is particularly easy to use these if one end is a pre-existing gridFTP server (as should exist at TACC); then all you need to do is to learn to use your grid proxy to "activate" the endpoint for use with your credentials. A lot more information is available at the Globus Online site, http://globusonline.org Hope this helps, Alan On Aug 23, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Ben Payne wrote: > Hello. I recently attended a conference on high performance computing > and was told GridFTP would be a better way to transfer data (rather > than SCP). However, when I tried to use the site > http://www.globus.org/toolkit/data/gridftp/ > which I found from http://www.google.com/search?q=gridftp > I ran into some difficulties. > > -there appears to be no Windows client pre-built (an .exe). Does the > executable exist? > -the source code is given for linux > http://www.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/latest-stable/ > but it is not mentioned that the client for Ubuntu exists via apt-get. > Specifically, I took the following route, once I had been told the > command is "globus-url-copy": > > $ sudo apt-get install globus-url-copy > E: Couldn't find package globus-url-copy > $ sudo apt-get install globus > E: Couldn't find package globus > $ globus-url-copy > The program 'globus-url-copy' is currently not installed. You can > install it by typing: > sudo apt-get install globus-gass-copy-progs > $ sudo apt-get install globus-gass-copy-progs > > and now the command > $ globus-url-copy > works as desired. However, this process is not mentioned on > http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/5.0/5.0.4/admin/install/ > > Additionally, I am still in the process of getting certificates to > work with TACC Ranger. > > As an end user, my use case is the following. I come to the GridFTP site for > -installation of the GridFTP client. I want to specify my OS (32bit > Ubuntu) and then find instructions on the easiest setup. ie, > sudo apt-get install globus-gass-copy-progs > For Windows users, this would be a compiled executable (if it exists). > -usage of the GridFTP client, including normal file transfers and > certificate setup. > > Thank you very much for developing the GridFTP client and making it > available. If any other feedback is needed, please let me know. > > If this is the incorrect list to send to, please let me know who to notify. > > > Ben
