Raj, On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:40 AM, "Raj Kettimuthu" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Free Globus Online service use parallelism and other performance optimization > parameters in GridFTP as part of its autotuning logic. In addition, it also > allows users to play with parallelism, concurrency values etc in the > 'transfer' command in CLI. Thanks for the update and correction - both here and at the IEEE e-Science / OGF 36 meeting in Chicago yesterday. As Ian suggests, Globus Online and Globus Connect (single or multi-user) do provide easy ways to get started moving data without having to learn the details of installing and configuring a gridftp server by hand, so since as you point out, parallelism is included in the features, there's no reason not to just start there. I'm a happy user for some of our science users at TTU both internally and for some small collaborations we support, and can say that it works well. The users like the flexibility regarding credential setup; we can use it with our existing gridftp servers and grid infrastructure when needed, and the web interface for setting things up and controlling transfers is exceedingly easy to use. If you do figure out how to get more throughput out of a connection than its line transfer speed limits, though, do let us know - I'm sure a lot of us would be happy to find out! (The recent Nobel prizes in physics on quantum teleportation may be of some help...) Alan
