“Due to its uniqueness, the data is very precious and the analysis will take time,” said Dr. Globus was used to move the files from disk to tape, a key use case for researchers. The data in question was stored on the Summit supercomputer at OLCF, currently the world’s fastest supercomputer according to the Top500 list published June 18, 2019. “Using Globus to easily move the data around between different storage solutions and institutions for analysis is essential.” “Storage is in general a very large problem in our community - the Universe is just very big, so our work can often generate a lot of data,” explained Katrin Heitmann, Argonne physicist and computational scientist and an Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) Early Science user.
Globus, the UChicago initiative and leading research data management service, announced the largest single file transfer in its history: a team led by Argonne National Laboratory scientists moved 2.9 petabytes of data as part of a research project involving three of the largest cosmological simulations to date. An outer rim simulation run using HACC, a simulation framework developed by Katrin Heitmann and other Argonne researchers.
