Overview of Globus

Globus is a data transfer service that can be used to move data between Mahuika and your computer, a server, or your institute's high capacity storage system (HSC).

The following guide shows how to:

• How to set up globus for the first time
• How to set up your free Globus Subscription with NeSI
• How to add your computer to Globus (if you would like to transfer data to your computer)
• How to transfer data between Mahuika and your computer/server/HSC
• How to transfer data between two computer/server/HSC (rather than between Mahuika and your computer/server/HSC)

This page also contains other useful information how to use Globus, including:

• Adding Bookmarks
• Sharing Data with colleagues using Globus
• Automate Globus
• Using the Globus CLI to transfer data

When should I use Globus?

Globus has been set up for transferring data to/from Mahuika to the outside world. You should only use Globus if you are wanting to move a large amount of data to/from Mahuika to the outside world.

• Do not use Globus if you are wanting to move data within Mahuika (i.e. between or within your home, project, and nobackup directories).
• If you want to move data within Mahuika, consider using copy (cp), move (mv), RClone, or Rsync.

Advantages of Globus

Globus allows users to transfer data between systems. Some advantages of using Globus are that:

• It uses a web-based graphical user interface to help users navigate through file systems and transfer data.
• Globus will perform data transfers in the background, allowing you to shutdown your computer while the transfer continues (as long as you are not transferring data to your computer)
• If there are any disruptions to your transfer, Globus can resume from where it left off.

Glossary

• Endpoints: Globus refers to computers, servers, high capacity storage systems as endpoints.

Quick Information

• Name of NeSI endpoint: NeSI HPC Storage
• Name of NeSI Subscription: New Zealand eScience Infrastructure Standard