A GridFTP Transport Driver for Globus XIO

GridFTP is a high-performance, reliable data transfer protocol optimized for high-bandwidth wide-area networks. Based on the Internet FTP protocol, it defines extensions for highperformance operation and security. The Globus implementation of GridFTP provides a modular and extensible data transfer system architecture suitable for wide area and high-performance environments. GridFTP is the de facto standard in projects requiring secure, robust, high-speed bulk data transport. For example, the high energy physics community is basing its entire tiered data movement infrastructure for the Large Hadron Collider computing Grid on GridFTP; the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory routinely uses GridFTP to move 1 TB a day during production runs; and GridFTP is the recommended data transfer mechanism to maximize data transfer rates on the TeraGrid. Commonly used GridFTP clients include globus-url-copy, uberftp, and the Globus Reliable File Transfer service. In this paper, we pre...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: PDPTA
• Authors: Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Wantao Liu, Joseph M. Link, John Bresnahan
• Keywords: Data Transfer, Data Transfer Protocol, Distributed And Parallel Computing, GridFTP, PDPTA 2008