Globus Connect

PC2 is currently not operating a licensed Globus Connect endpoint but if the other institution from/to which you want to transfer data has a licensed Globus Connect endpoint, then you can use Globus Connect.

The steps are explained in the following guide:

login to one of the frontends of a PC2 system
download Globus Connect Personal
wget https://downloads.globus.org/globus-connect-personal/linux/stable/globusconnectpersonal-latest.tgz
Unpack the file and change to the subdirectory
If you use it at PC2 system for the first time, run
./globusconnectpersonal -setup
and follow the steps to create an endpoint. Please note that the endpoint you create is private which means that it is only visible to you.
For the actual data transfer you can for example use
./globusconnectpersonal -start -encrypt -restrict-paths /scratch/[PROJECTNAME]
if you want to be able to transfer data to/from the project directory on the parallel file system. Please be aware that Globus Connect Personal has to run during the transfer. You can achieve this with a screen or tmux session.

Globus connect uses unencrypted data transfer by default. Apart from the fact that data should not be transmitted unencrypted, these connections are blocked by our firewall. Therefore, it is necessary to enable encrypted traffic by using the -encrypt option.