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Overview

Globus Online is a tool for users to request data transfers between predefined Globus Online sites (endpoints), or between an endpoint and a user desktop/laptop running Windows/Mac/Linux. Under the hood Globus Online uses GridFTP to do managed data transfers. Users do not need to know anything about GridFTP.

Usage

To use Globus Online, one needs to open a free account at Globus Online web page:

www.globus.orgGlobus is an online services that allows transferring data between different locations.  To use globus you need to sign in. There are different options to sign in including creating an free account (Globus ID).

Once logged in, users can request data transfers, view progress on existing transfers, manage transfer requests and view history.

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One of the endpoints (but not both) can be a GlobusConnect running on user's destop/laptop. GlobusConnect is available for free download after login to Globus Online.

Globus Online endpoint at SLAC/LCLS

SLAC has several Globus Oline endpoints. One of them is for LCLS (slac#lcls). To be able to access Globus Online endpoint defined for LCLS, please send an email to data-management. Once a user is enabled to use Globus Online with LCLS, the user can authenticate with endpoint slac#lcls using SLAC unix username/password.

Support

For more information about Globus Online, including documentation, support, troubleshooting, please login to Globus Online and check out the "Resource" section at the bottom. If you suspect that a problem is SLAC/LCLS specific, please contact unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu.