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TUTORIAL: Enabling Your Campus to Simplify Research Data Management with Globus Online

ABSTRACT: In this tutorial, XSEDE Campus Champions and owners of campus resources will learn how to deliver easy-to-use yet sophisticated data management solutions to their researchers using Globus services. Globus provides research data management capabilities using software-as-a-service (SaaS) approaches, without requiring construction of custom end-to-end systems. Globus services provide secure, scalable, robust solutions to the issues faced by users when moving, storing, and sharing "big data" among distributed research groups. The Globus Transfer service addresses the challenges of moving large data sets between campus/XSEDE resources and researchers' personal computers. The Globus Storage service enables users to place data on campus storage and other cloud storage systems, and allows them to access, update, snapshot, and share versions of their data with anyone on campus as well collaborators at other institutions. This tutorial will demonstrate how a campus can easily enable data management services for their end users using Globus. Participants will learn how to set up a Globus Transfer endpoint using Globus Connect Multi-User (GCMU) and how to create and manage Globus Storage endpoints. Participants also will learn how to set up a MyProxy OAuth server and configure their endpoint to use it for user authentication.

REQUIRES: Laptop