I thought GlobusOnline was GridFTP only, but I have only looked at it briefly in the past, not tested it.
Despite having a fraction of myself (a leg or so) in NGS, this announcement came as a complete surprise to me, so nobody asked me to check. The "press release" appears to have been mailed around very widely.
-j
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From: GRIDPP2: Deployment and support of SRM and local storage management [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Sam Skipsey [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 November 2011 11:19
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Subject: Re: NGS and Globus Online
Hi Ewan,
On 15 November 2011 11:11, Ewan MacMahon <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Morning all,
The NGS have just sent round a news update:
http://www.ngs.ac.uk/news/uk-national-grid-service-ngs-adopts-globus-online
which includes the claim that:
"All computing resources available to the NGS community have been
added as transfer endpoints in the Globus Online system"
Note that the NGS don't really work with SEs; data tends to be transferred differently by them.
As far as I can see one of two things is the case:
- This is true, and we should know about it and how it accesses
our SEs,
- It doesn't include our (NGS VO supporting) resources, and is
not true, in which case we should poke the NGS folks with
a sharp stick and ask for a correction.
Does anyone know for sure which it is?
I don't know for sure. I shall have a prod and see what I can discover.
I suspect that option 2 is much more likely, given the way the NGS resources work (and David Wallom's aversion to glite stuff in general ;) ).
Sam
Ewan
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