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 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

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