Globus

Globus Connect allows for transfers between Globus collections, which is useful when migrating from one High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster to another.

Join the UMass Globus subscription

UMass has its own Globus subscription! Anyone with an @umass.edu Globus ID can join. Joining a subscription allows you to use advanced data management and remote computation capabilities on the Globus platform. The following steps will guide you through how to join UMass’s Globus subscription.

1. Go to app.globus.org/settings/subscriptions.

2. If prompted, log in to Globus with your UMass credentials.

3. In the top right of the page, click Find a Subscription and enter UMass Amherst into the search bar.

4. Click on University of Massachusetts Amherst as it appears in the search bar. You will be taken to a landing page with information about UMass’s Globus subscription.

5. Click Join this Subscription on the right side of the page.

Use Globus Connect to transfer files

The following steps will guide you through how to use Globus Connect to transfer files from one Globus collection to another.

Know which two Globus collections you want to transfer between. One Globus collection is presumably Unity, and the other could be your local machine if you install Globus Connect Personal.

1. Go to app.globus.org.

2. If prompted, select your university in the field provided to login with your university’s identity provider. Click Continue to log in.

   

3. Go to the File Manager page. The File Mananger page opens, which shows a Collection field and a Path field for you to fill in.

4. In the Collection field, select one of the two collections in your transfer. At the time of this writing, there is more than one collection named Unity.

   To select Unity’s Globus endpoint, paste the following string into the search box: acda5457-9c06-4564-8375-260ba428f22a

   

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   If after selecting the collection you get an “Identity Required” page, you should click on the email address associated with your Unity account. Only if that is not listed should you search for it.

5. After selecting a collection, there are two mirrored panels. If not, select the split panel layout icon in the top right.

   

6. Select the second collection involved in your transfer. The collection search page reopens.

   The following image shows an example of one of the two split panels:

   

   For each selected collection, the panels show a number of selected files, and a Start button to copy the selected files to the other side.

7. Select the files you want to copy to the other collection.

8. To copy the files to the other collection, press Start.