In this live Q&A webinar, Globus Chief Customer Officer Vas Vasiliadis provided a detailed look at the features included in a Globus subscription.

1. Globus: Why Subscribe?
Vas Vasiliadis
vas@uchicago.edu

2. Our mission is to…
increase the efficiency and effectiveness of
researchers engaged in data-driven
science and scholarship
through sustainable software

3. Why do we care about
sustainability?

4. Meet current expectations
Deliver production-grade (reliable,
scalable) service

5. Meet ”aspirational” needs
Continue innovating (incremental +
disruptive)

6. 8,300
active shared
endpoints
100+
subscribers
530 PB
moved
21,000
active personal
endpoints
83 billion
files processed
1,800
active server
endpoints
3 months
longest running transfer
1 PB
largest single
transfer to date
99.9%
availability
559
identity providers
1,923
most shared
endpoints
at a single
institution 127,000
registered users
How are we doing so far?

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Free Subscribed

8. Thank you to our sponsors...
U . S . D E P A R T M E N T O F
ENERGY

9. THANK YOU, subscribers!

10. So, why subscribe?

11. A Globus subscription…
simplifies collaboration
within and beyond organizational
boundaries

12. Point. Click. Share.
…from anywhere, with anyone

13. Demonstration
Sharing via Globus web app

14. Ad hoc data sharing
• Individual users share data
with collaborators
• Using a known email or
identity for user/group
• Make data publicly available
1
Compute Facility
Globus controls
access to shared
files on existing
storage; no need
to move files to
cloud storage!
Researcher selects
files to share, selects
user or group, and
sets access
permissions
3
Collaborator logs in to
Globus and accesses
shared files; no local
account required;
download via Globus
Personal Computer
Share
2

15. Data from instrument facility
• Provide near-real time access
to data
• Automated permissions
based on site policy
• Self managed by the PI
• Federated login to access
data
Raw data store
Personal Computer
Remote
visualization/analysis
Local
policy
store
--/cohort045
--/cohort096
--/cohort127

16. Data from provider/archive
• Portal/science gateway used to
distribute data
• Interface for searching,
gathering data of interest
• Async or HTTS transfer to user’s
system
• Fine-grained authorization
enforced
Search and request
data of interest
Transfer
data to
destination

17. Core center data processing
• Allow user to securely
upload data for analysis
• Make analysis results
available to user
• Automate setup and tear
down of folders and
permissions
--/123/input rw
Analysis System
--/123/output r

18. A Globus subscription…
provides a unified view of all
your storage

19. Laptop hard disk.
HPC filesystem.
Cloud object store.
Tape archive.
…they all look the same

20. Planned
Storage Connectors - globus.org/connectors

21. Demonstration
Accessing cloud storage

22. A Globus subscription…
enables preview and
download via browser (with
fine-grained access control)

23. Demonstration
Accessing data without Globus
Connect Personal

24. A Globus subscription…
creates secure environments
for protected data

25. HIPAA. PHI. PII. CUI.
…as easy as “regular” data

26. Additional authentication assurance
userX@anl.gov userX@uchicago.edu

27. Re-authentication timeout
userX@anl.gov userX@uchicago.edu

28. Demonstration
Accessing an HA collection

29. Application Instance Isolation
userX@uchicago.edu
Re-authentication required for different app in
same browser (app instance 2)
userX@uchicago.edu
Authenticated in browser session
(app instance 1)

30. Application Instance Isolation
userX@uchicago.edu
Authenticated in browser session
(app instance 1)
Re-authentication required in CLI
session (app instance 3)
userX@uchicago.edu

31. Application Instance Isolation
userX@uchicago.edu
Authenticated in browser session
(app instance 1)
Re-authentication required in CLI
session (app instance 3)
userX@uchicago.edu

32. Application Instance Isolation
Re-authentication
required on mobile
device (app instance 4)
userX@uchicago.edu
Authenticated in browser session
(app instance 1)

33. A Globus subscription…
gives admins real-time
visibility and control

34. Monitor. Identify. Act.
…on all active file transfers

35. Demonstration
Globus management console

36. A Globus subscription…
allows performance
tuning/optimization

37. Balance: performance - reliability
• Network use parameters: concurrency, parallelism
• Transfer considers source and destination settings
min(
max(preferred src, preferred dest),
max src,
max dest
)

38. Demonstration
Network use parameters

39. Illustrative
performance

40. A Globus subscription…
enables accountability with
usage reporting

41. Demonstration
Historical usage reports

42. A Globus subscription…
puts Globus experts
at your disposal
support@globus.org

43. Installation?
Configuration?
Operational issues?
…perfect for our dedicated customer
support team

44. o >33% one-touch resolution
o Rapid triage, L2/3 escalation
o 3hr (average) first response
o Lots of unsolicited praise!

45. A Globus subscription…
taps into our
integration expertise

46. Data distribution?
Automated data flows?
IAM for your apps?
…that’s the Globus platform

47. Globus Auth
(identity and access management)
…
GlobusAPIs
(Transfer,Search,Identifiers,…)
GlobusConnect
Data Publication
File Sharing
File Transfer, Sync
Globus Platform-as-a-Service
Data Automation

48. Data Distribution

49. JLSEUChicago
ALCFAPS
Publication7
Automated Data Flows
Imaging1
Lab Server 1
Acquisition2
Lab Server 2
Pre-processing3 Preview/Center4
Reconstruction6Visualization8
User validation5
Science!9
Kasthuri Lab
neuroanatomy
reconstruction
pipeline

50. Jupyter + Globus: Scaling interactive data science
petrel.alcf.anl.gov
materialsdatafacility.org
2PB, 80Gbps store
3.2M materials data
Cooley: 290 TFLOPS
Query1 Share4
Transfer2
Learn3
Requires multi-credential, multi-service authentication/authorization

51. A Globus subscription…
delivers a seamless data
management experience for
your users

52. Branded web site

53. Alternate Identity Provider

54. • Streamlined data collaboration (file sharing)
• Unified system access (connectors)
• Secure, browser based access to research storage (HTTPS)
• Simplified access to protected data (HA endpoints)
• Sysadmin visibility/control (console, usage reporting)
• Optimized performance (network use parameters)
• App/portal/gateway integration support (REST APIs)
• Seamless user experience (branded web site, alternate IdP)
• World class support
Summary

55. A Globus subscription…
is the right thing to do!

56. Usage supported by the
goodwill of others?
…don’t let Globus fall prey to the
Tragedy of the Commons!

57. THE RESEARCH EMPIRE NEEDS
YOU

58. sales@globus.org