Blog Archive, May 2011

Research from the coffee shop

May 09, 2011  |  Ian Foster

As I pondered what tone to setting for this blog, I tried to put myself in the shoes of the professional researcher. While I’ve lived that life, the everyday life...

Welcome!

May 09, 2011  |  Ian Foster

Welcome to the Globus Online blog! On these pages we plan to present/discuss/debate a range of topics dear to the hearts of computational researchers: data movement, information sharing and collaboration,...

May 2011 User of the Month: NERSC

May 11, 2011  |  Paul Dave

We are very pleased to see so many of our users utilizing Globus Online to support their scientific research -- this week I heard one user had moved 6TB of...

GO Behind the Scenes: Globus Online relies on Amazon's EC2

May 16, 2011  |  Stuart Martin

I am delighted to write this inaugural post for "GO Behind the Scenes" -- our Dev column in the new Globus Online (GO) blog. Entries could come from any member...

When Trivial Becomes Critical: File Transfer and its Role in Genomic Sequencing

May 19, 2011  |  Brigitte Raumann

I think I can speak for most biologists when I say I never thought I would be worrying about file transfer. Compute power, yes. Storage space, maybe. But file transfer?...

Getting a Bigger 'N' for Studies of Rare Conditions

May 25, 2011  |  Lee Liming

I get a kick out of seeing "ordinary" information technologies make new kinds of science possible. For example, the ability to move and share digital data is a pretty mundane...