Newswise — Globus Online, the software-as-a-service for research data management, has launched a new web site – www.globusonline.eu – to serve the European research community. The announcement was made at the GlobusEUROPE conference, co-located at the European Grid Infrastructure’s (EGI) Technical Forum 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic.
European scientists can now use the Globus Online service to move large-scale data reliably, using a service specifically designed for them. This is the latest step in a multi-year effort led by the IGE to enable researchers within the EU to make use of the tools provided by Globus alongside the European Grid Infrastructure’s (EGI) services. “I’m delighted that IGE have chosen to launch this new service during our Technical Forum” says Steven Newhouse, EGI Director. “Our partnership with IGE and Globus Online is important for the future of the infrastructure and helps us support a wider range of researchers.”
Globus Online is a popular, fast, secure and easy-to-use file transfer service that was recently recognised by R&D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced in the past year . Globus Online currently has over 6,000 registered users who have used the service to transfer over 500 million files, close to 7 petabytes, to date. Globusonline.eu is a pan-Atlantic project with the Globus team at the Computation Institute – a joint initiative between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory – leading the development effort, and collaborating with both EGI and IGE to better address the specific requirements of researchers in the EU.
Globus Online moves data directly between source and destination systems without the need for the data to pass through an intermediate server. Servers in the U.S. monitor the trans
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