Citing Globus

Please cite each of the following publications in any published research that uses Globus. When referencing specific components please cite the relevant publication below.

Foster, I., "Globus Online: Accelerating and Democratizing Science through Cloud-Based Services," Internet Computing, IEEE , vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 70,73, May-June 2011

Allen, B., Bresnahan, J., Childers, L., Foster, I., Kandaswamy, G., Kettimuthu, R, Kordas, J., Link, M., Martin, S., Pickett, K., Tuecke, S., "Software as a service for data scientists," Communications of the ACM, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 81,88, February 2012


Papers

Steven Tuecke, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Kyle Chard, Mattias Lidman, Brendan McCollam, Stephen Rosen, and Ian Foster

PDF icon Globus Auth: A Research Identity and Access Management Platform

IEEE 12th International Conference on eScience | 2016

Describes the design and implementation of Globus Auth, and reports on experiences integrating it with a range of research resources and services, including the JetStream cloud, XSEDE, NCAR's Research Data Archive, and FaceBase.

Kyle Chard, Mattias Lidman, Brendan McCollam, Josh Bryan, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Steven Tuecke, Ian Foster

PDF icon Globus Nexus: A Platform-as-a-Service provider of research identity, profile, and group management

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2016

Presents Globus Nexus, describe its capabilities and architecture, summarize how several e-Science applications leverage these capabilities, and present results that characterize its scalability, reliability, and availability.

Kyle Chard, Steven Tuecke, Ian Foster

PDF icon Globus: Recent Enhancements and Future Plans

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2016

Describes recent enhancements to Globus including secure data sharing, publication services, secure HTTP data access, new storage system types, and Globus Auth. The authors also review adoption trends and presents future plans.

Ian Foster, Kyle Chard, Steven Tuecke

PDF icon The Discovery Cloud: Accelerating and Democratizing Research on a Global Scale

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2016 | Bibtex

Describes the proposal of the Discovery Cloud, an ecosystem of new, community-produced services to which small to medium laboratories (SMLs) can outsource common activities, from data management and analysis to collaboration and experiment automation.

Kyle Chard, Jim Pruyne, Ben Blaiszik, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Steven Tuecke, Ian Foster

PDF icon Globus Data Publication as a Service: Lowering Barriers to Reproducible Science

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2015 | Bibtex | RIS

Describes how the Globus research data management service supports publication of large datasets, with customizable policies for different institutions and researchers; the ability to publish data directly from both locally owned storage and cloud storage; extensible metadata that can be customized to describe specific attributes of different research domains; flexible publication and curation workflows that can be easily tailored to meet institutional requirements; and public and restricted collections that give complete control over who may access published data.

Kyle Chard, Steven Tuecke, and Ian Foster

PDF icon Efficient and Secure Transfer, Synchronization, and Sharing of Big Data

University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory | 2014

Describes how Globus supports standard data interfaces and common security models for securely accessing, transferring, synchronizing, and sharing large quantities of data.

Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster, Steven Tuecke

PDF icon Globus Platform-as-a-Service for Collaborative Science Applications

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2014 | Bibtex | RIS

Discusses how Globus Platform-as-a-Service can streamline development of web applications and make it easy for individuals, teams, and institutions to create collaborative science applications such as science gateways. The authors describe Globus Nexus and Globus Transfer and detail how their identity, profile, group, transfer and sharing capabilities can be easily used by developers when creating collaborative applications.

Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Josh Bryan, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster, Tom Howe, Mattias Lidman, Steven Tuecke

PDF icon Globus Nexus: An identity, profile, and group management platform for science gateways and other collaborative science applications

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2013

Introduces the capabilities of the Globus Nexus platform and reviews representative applications.

Ian Foster, Vas Vasiliadis, Steven Tuecke

PDF icon SaaS as a Path to Sustainable Software Delivery

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2013 | Bibtex | RIS

Describes how the software-as-a-service (SaaS) paradigm has advantages as a sustainable delivery method for scientific software. The authors report on their experience developing and delivering the Globus Online research data management system, noting problems encountered and potential solutions.

Ian Foster, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Stuart Martin, Steve Tuecke, Daniel Milroy, Brock Palen, Thomas Hauser, Jazcek Braden

PDF icon Campus Bridging Made Easy via Globus Services

2012 | Bibtex | RIS

Describes the features of Globus that make it a valuable to researchers for moving or synchronizing data across institutional boundaries. The authors report on the experiences of the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado Boulder as early adopters of the service.

Bryce Allen, John Bresnahan, Lisa Childers, Ian Foster, Gopi Kandaswamy, Raj Kettimuthu, Jack Kordas, Mike Link, Stuart Martin, Karl Pickett, Steven Tuecke

PDF icon Software as a Service for Data Scientists

2012 | Bibtex | RIS

Describes why SaaS approaches are a promising solution to reducing the costs of research data life-cycle management. The authors use Globus as an exemplar of the potential of SaaS for research data management, and demonstrate how it simplifies data movement for researchers and research facilities alike.

Ian Foster

PDF icon Globus Online: Accelerating and Democratizing Science through Cloud-Based Services

Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2011 | Bibtex | RIS

This "View from the Cloud" paper motivates the use of cloud-based services to overcome the complexities inherent in increasingly data-intensive, computational, and collaborative scientific research.

Bryce Allen, John Bresnahan, Lisa Childers, Ian Foster, Gopi Kandaswamy, Raj Kettimuthu, Jack Kordas, Mike Link, Stuart Martin, Karl Pickett, Steven Tuecke

PDF icon Globus Online: Radical Simplification of Data Movement via SaaS

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & U. Chicago; Dept. of Computer Science, U. Chicago; Information Sciences Inst., U. Southern California | 2011 | Bibtex | RIS

Proposes the delivery of research data management capabilities via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The authors describe the motivation behind Globus Online and the initial implementation of the file transfer service.

Chris A. Mattmann, Sean Kelly, Daniel J. Crichton, J. Steven Hughes, Paul M. Ramirez, Ron Joyner

PDF icon A Classification and Evaluation of Data Movement Technologies for the Delivery of Highly Voluminous Scientific Data Products

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | 2006 | Bibtex | RIS

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared various data movement technologies, concluding that parallel TCP technologies – like GridFTP, used by Globus Online – outperform alternatives in several key areas.

Gayane Vardoyan, Steven Tuecke, Michael Link, Rajkumar Kettimuthu

PDF icon Characterizing Throughput Bottlenecks for Secure GridFTP Transfers

Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago | 2013 | Bibtex | RIS

Discusses the impact of encryption and integrity checking on file transfers over GridFTP. The authors present an extensive experimental study on the performance implications of enabling integrity protection and encryption on the data channel.


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