You will first need a SLAC unix computer account to be access your data.
There are numerous ways to access your data. Each have their pro's and con's which will be discussed. All data in kept on SLAC's global file system and is available from all centrally managed hosts.
All experimental data is stored under /gpfs/slac/cryo/fs1/exp/ and is organised within a directory that is the month of the experiment. eg if your experiment name is 20180520-CS01, then your data will be held under /gpfs/slac/cryo/fs1/exp/201805/20180520-CS01.
Permissions to access the data can be controlled via the elogbook https://cryoem-logbook.slac.stanford.edu/lgbk/experiments. One should add whomever should have access to the data to the list of 'collaborators' for the experiment.
RSYNC/SCP
Rsync can be used over ssh to bulk transfer/synchronise data across different locations. Please use dtn02.slac.stanford.edu for this purpose.
Globus
One can create a free globus account at https://globusonline.org. From there, one can download a local client (Globus Connect Personal) so that files may be copied to say your laptop, or staged to another Globus Endpoint that your institution may run.
The Endpoint for SLAC CryoEM's data is at slac#cryoem.
You should use your SLAC Unix Account as credentials to log into slac#cryoem endpoint (once you have a globus id)
Please note that currently, you must request access to be able to use the slac#cryoem endpoint. Please send an email to ytl@slac.stanford.edu.
SAMBA
If you are onsite at SLAC, you can access the data via samba/cifs. You should connect to zslaccfs in order to browse the global directory. From there you can access the cryo-EM disks under cryoem.
You should login with your SLAC Windows Account to use this.
SSHFS
You can also use the FUSE based SSHFS to mount the filesystem via ssh. It is recommended to ssh into dtn02.slac.stanford.edu in order to use this method.
Using SSHFS the filesystem will be mounted locally so that you may browse the directory as you would with SAMBA etc.
BBCP
BBCP provides multi-stream parallel transfers of data that allows transfers speeds to be significantly higher than that of scp. Details TBD.
Summary
| Globus | SAMBA | SSHFS | RSYNC/SCP | BBCP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Install | Clients available, Servers should already have it installed | Implementation already baked into MAC OS and Windows. Simple install for Linux. | Requires FUSE library. Not available for Windows (i think) | Command line tools usually already installed in most Linux and MAC OSes. GUI's available for SCP. | Command line tools only | |
| Graphical Interface | Yes (Web) | Yes (OS) | Yes (OS) | Potentially | No | |
| Command line interface | Yes | Yes (standard OS) | Yes (standard OS) | Yes (standard OS) | Yes (standard OS) | |
| Performance | Fast | Fast | Slow | Slow | Fast | |
| Access | Anywhere | At SLAC Only | Anywhere | Anywhere | Anywhere | |
| Credentials | Globus ID + SLAC Unix | SLAC Windows | SLAC Unix | SLAC Unix | SLAC Unix | |
| Ease of Use | Easy | Easy | Medium | Difficult | Difficult | |