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Getting Started with Globus Connect

Below are the individual steps with example screenshots regarding the setup of your Globus login account, accessing our UNC Globus Collection named “UNC, Research Computing, Datamover” (or uncch#unc-rc-dm). There is an optional installation and configuration of your personal Globus Connect client.

Globus addresses deficiencies in secure copy requests by automating large data transfers, by resuming failed transfers, file transfers are encrypted over the wire by default and by simplifying the implementation of high-performance transfers between computing centers. Once you have finished the setup steps below you can use the Globus Connect file transfer utility.

 

Table of Contents

Globus Connect Web Interface setup and configuration

UNC-CH as Identity Provider

Onyen user-id and Onyen password

Transfer Files

“UNC, Research Computing, Datamover” Collection

Destination transfer

Globus Connect Personal

 

Globus Connect Web Interface Setup and Configuration

First, click this: https://app.globus.org

All of the following steps are using the web page you just clicked on.

We are going to setup your UNC login access method using your UNC Onyen userid and Onyen password.

  • Enter “chapel hill” and click on “University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill”
  • Click on “Continue” button

 

UNC-CH as Identity Provider

  • On the CILogon web page, verify “UNC at Chapel Hill” is the Identify Provider.
  • Check the box “Remember this selection”
  • Click on “Log On”

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Onyen user-id and Onyen password

  • Enter your UNC Onyen user-id and Onyen password

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Transfer Files

  • Select “File Manager” to transfer files

 

“UNC, Research Computing, Datamover” Collection

  • To access the UNC Collection. Enter “UNC, Research Computing, Datamover” in the ‘Collection’ field.

 

Destination transfer

  • Next, you can either access your personal Collection to transfer between your personal workstation/laptop and Research Computing storage. To setup your personal endpoint Collection, see steps further below in Globus Connect Personal.
  • OR
  • Access the “UNC, Research Computing, Datamover” Collection a 2nd time to transfer data internally between various Research Computing storage such as Scratch Space and Mass Storage (~/ms/).

 

Globus Connect Personal

Setting up a personal endpoint by downloading and configuring the Globus Connect Personal software

It is only necessary to set up your workstation/laptop to be a personal endpoint if you will be transferring data between it and other Globus collections (such as ‘UNC, Research Computing, DataMover‘ or collections of other institutions).

If you need to set up your PC as a personal endpoint, that is done by installing and configuring the Globus Connect Personal software on it.

UNC Research Computing now has  Globus Plus and it is available to users through membership in a Globus group.  Users can request access by logging in to globus.org (with their onyen) and on the Account page following the prompts to request access, or by sending email to research@unc.edu.
(Globus Plus has other use cases besides PC-to-PC file transfer, e.g. sharing from personal endpoint to internal/external user for transfer to/from server endpoints.)

 

Downloads for Windows, Mac, Linux:

Globus Connect Personal