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A Decade of Research Data Management Innovation Enables Scientific Breakthroughs

In 2020 Globus celebrated its ten year anniversary. Initially launched as a service to connect researchers and make large-scale data transfer accessible to any researcher with an internet connection and a laptop, it has grown to become an essential service to over 160,000 researchers around the world.

Users in 80 countries have moved over one exabyte of data and 100 billion files, and the service has evolved into a platform that enables universities, national laboratories, government facilities, and commercial organizations to securely manage data throughout the research lifecycle.

Globus has been instrumental in enabling many scientific breakthroughs that have literally changed the world.

Continuing Arecibo's Legacy

Within weeks of Arecibo’s collapse, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) entered into an agreement with the University of Central Florida (UCF), the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), the Arecibo Observatory, the Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot (CICoE Pilot), and Globus at the University of Chicago.

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Globus Enables National Cyberinfrastructures

Mundane research data management tasks should be fully automated and essentially “invisible” to researchers, allowing them to focus on the core mission of scientific research. To this end, several countries have set up national cyberinfrastructures that democratize access to advanced data management capabilities for researchers at diverse instiutions and facilities.

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NSF Funding Drives new "Serverless" Platform for Computational Scientific Research

With a pair of grants to the Universities of Chicago and Illinois from the National Science Foundation totalling $3.14 million, a team led by UChicago CS researchers Ian Foster and Kyle Chard and Daniel S. Katz of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, seek to streamline the process of delegating chunks of data and analysis functions to their ideal destination with funcX, which is a new distributed “function-as-a-service” (FaaS) platform that makes it easier for researchers to easily and automatically delegate their computational workload.

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