The University of Chicago offers Globus, a platform with robust data and compute management capabilities, to all researchers, staff and students. The Globus platform provides the following capabilities:

• Managed data transfer solutions for high-speed, reliable, secure file transfer and replication among any variety of storage systems, including on-premises file systems and object stores, desktops and laptops, and cloud storage.
• Collaborative data sharing, where a user-defined subset of the data can be securely shared with select collaborators (or a broader community), and which they can access using their institutional identity.
• A secure data discovery service that is research domain-agnostic and customizable for indexing any metadata. The search capability offers query and discovery of research data that can be stored and made available on any storage system. The service also provides fine-grained control of visibility to both data and applied to metadata, making it suitable for use with protected data.
• A reliable, managed automation service that enables task orchestration at scale, supporting a wide range of use cases from instrument data processing to data publication workflows.
• Secure and managed compute access for scalable and reliable remote function execution across diverse resources, using a single, unified interface run codes on the campus research computing cluster, advanced supercomputing resources at Argonne, and other platforms such as cloud-hosted virtual machines.
• Underpinning all Globus services is Globus Auth, a security platform that integrates federated identities from thousands of institutions and provides mechanisms for policy enforcement when accessing both standard and protected data.

These capabilities can be used via a user-friendly web interface and integrated into applications via programmable interfaces. In addition to the web application, the following client packages are available:

• A command line client interface
• Python and JavaScript SDKs 
• Django and JavaScript serverless portal framework (www.globus.org/portals)

Globus is actively used on over 37,000 storage systems spanning more than 2,600 institutions in over 80 countries—and has been deployed on more than 200,000 systems since 2010. This large and growing network makes data discoverable and accessible to researchers and their collaborators everywhere.