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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 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...

Blog Archive, May 2011