Blog

Highlights from GlobusWorld Raleigh

June 08, 2026 | Susan Tussy

GlobusWorld 2026 ( Raleigh) was held last week at North Carolina State University, bringing together researchers, system administrators, developers and IT leaders from 32 top research computing centers, national laboratories, federal agencies and universities. The Globus team conducted workshops and deep dives on multiple topics, including Globus Connect and Compute for System Administrators, along with other services that enable automating discovery and data publication, such as Globus Search and Globus Flows.

Globus provides the backbone service for the Human Organ Atlas Repository

March 31, 2026

Globus services are used in the Human Organ Atlas data portal to provide reliable and efficient downloading of large imaging datasets. This enables researchers worldwide to access multiscale organ imaging files—many of which are hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes in size—with speed and security, overcoming the challenges of typical web browser downloads. For users with limited computational resources, the HOA also offers downsampled and compressed versions for easier access.

Data Challenges Facing the Genesis Mission

February 03, 2026 | Ian Foster

A recent HPCwire article by Ali Azhar situates the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission within a broader realization that AI for science will succeed or fail not on model capability alone, but on the infrastructure that allows data and computation to be shared, governed, and trusted at scale. Here is a Globus response to the article.

Globus at the ALCF

January 14, 2026 | Susan Tussy

Researchers are using Globus and ALCF computing resources to drive discoveries. The Globus service is used extensively in projects at the ALCF to manage the massive amounts of data and compute resources.

Globus Meets CMMC 2.0 Level 1 Requirements

November 14, 2025 | Jonathan Solorzano

Globus is pleased to announce we have completed our annual CMMC 2.0 Level 1 self-assessment. As part of this process, we have attested to the implementation of the 15 security requirements found in FAR Clause 52.204-21 and submitted our annual affirmation of compliance within the Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS) to satisfy CMMC Level 1 requirements.

Globus Announces Support for Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes

November 04, 2025 | Susan Tussy

We are excited to announce that Globus now fully supports Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes. The addition of AWS Glacier support means researchers can unify their entire data lifecycle—from collection and analysis to sharing and archival—within the trusted Globus environment.

Announcing Garden: HPC-ready AI Powered by Globus Compute

October 21, 2025 | Ben Blaiszik

What if publishing and running the best machine learning models including best-in-class machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) took seconds, not days? That’s a core idea behind Garden, a service that makes it simple for users to find and build upon models, and scale their machine learning tasks across cloud and HPC.

Support for scheduled, recurring flows

October 15, 2025 | Ada Nikolaidis

Globus Flows provides secure, managed automation of complex workflows at scale. These automations, called flows, are series of actions that can perform common chores—like replicating data across multiple storage systems—as...

Globus Enables New Forecast Models for Extreme Weather Events

August 26, 2025

As “extreme” weather events become increasingly common, researchers are racing to improve how we predict and prepare for them. Thanks to cutting-edge tools and high-powered computing systems, new forecasting models are now delivering faster and more accurate predictions than ever before.

Connecting Researchers to their Data

July 15, 2025 | Susan Tussy

The Globus AWS S3-compatible premium connector has been validated for Dell ObjectScale. Researchers and institutions using ObjectScale can now seamlessly integrate their storage infrastructure with the Globus platform, gaining access to powerful, secure, and reliable data management capabilities.

Globus Connect Server default subdomain change on July 16, 2025

July 09, 2025

Beginning July 16, 2025, new Globus Connect Server endpoints will be assigned gaccess.io as the default subdomain, rather than data.globus.org. There will be no impact on existing installations at this time.

Enabling integration across research infrastructures for accelerating science - Part 4

April 30, 2025

General Atomics: Higher Fidelity Plasma State Reconstructions and Particle Tracking Across Facilities for DIII-D The DIII-D program is leveraging the power of Globus to streamline and automate their analysis pipelines, significantly enhancing the efficiency and responsiveness of their research workflows.

Enabling integration across research infrastructures for accelerating science - Part 3

April 18, 2025

This collaboration between Ptychodus and Globus not only enhances the efficiency of ptychographic imaging but also fosters greater collaboration and data sharing among leading research facilities, paving the way for new discoveries and innovations in the field.

Enabling integration across research infrastructures for accelerating science - Part 2

March 26, 2025

The OpenCosmo Data and Analysis Portal aims to simplify cosmology research by providing a central hub for interacting with large-scale simulation datasets. OpenCosmo is built on Globus platform services, using Globus Flows to manage data transfers and analyses across HPC sites.

Enabling integration across research infrastructures for accelerating science

March 06, 2025 | Ryan Chard

Welcome to our blog series on using Globus to integrate diverse research infrastructures to accelerate science. In today's data-intensive scientific landscape, it is increasingly necessary to make use of resources that are located at different facilities. Resilient X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy With Facility Failover

New permissions on runs for flow owners

February 17, 2025 | Brigitte Raumann

A growing number of shared instrument facilities offer flows to their users in order to automate routine workflows, such as data movement between instruments and computing resources, execution of data analysis pipelines, metadata extraction, and publication to data distribution portals. We are working on delivering new features to support these use cases.

Congratulations You Have Built a Globus

January 23, 2025

We read with amusement “Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes” and “Dear Sir, You have built a compiler”, two tongue-in-cheek commentaries on the tendency to build quick-and-dirty scripts because the best-of-breed solution is “overkill”. We said, “someone should write one of those for Globus.”

Globus meets new security expectations for NIH controlled-access data

December 05, 2024 | Brigitte Raumann

NIH has announced an Implementation Update for Data Management and Access Practices Under the Genomic Data Sharing Policy. Effective January 25, 2025, Approved Users of NIH controlled-access data must attest they maintain such data on institutional IT systems and third-party computing infrastructures compliant with NIST SP 800-171. You can use Globus data management services to meet these new NIH security best practices for controlled-access data at your institution.

Globus Named in Multiple HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

November 19, 2024

Globus was recognized in the 21st edition of HPCwire awards alongside other contributing organizations, and was named in three HPCwire awards including Editors’ Choice : Best Use of HPC in the Physical Sciences, Readers’ Choice: Best HPC in the Cloud (use case) and Editors’ Choice: Best HPC Response to a Societal Plight.

Globus Celebrates Exascale Day

October 18, 2024 | Susan Tussy

As we join in the celebration of Exascale Day on this 18th day of October 2024 Globus has helped researchers move over 2.8 exabytes of data. It took over ten years before we hit the one exabyte (EB) mark, just over four years to cross the 2 EB line, and just one year later, in 2024, we are rapidly approaching the 3 EB milestone.

Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - Saturday, November 2, 2024

October 16, 2024 | Brigitte Raumann

To accommodate required database upgrades, Globus services will be unavailable for up to one hour beginning at 9:00 am US Central on Saturday, November 2, 2024.

Globus Enables Experiment-Time Data Analysis

July 17, 2024

For over a decade, the ALCF and APS, both DOE Office of Science user facilities, have collaborated to build the infrastructure for integrated ALCF-APS research, including work to develop workflow management tools, and enable secure access to on-demand computing. The Globus platform and suite of tools enabled them to achieve their goals.

Globus Compute Multi-User Endpoints

June 25, 2024 | Kevin Hunter Kesling

A multi-user compute endpoint installation streamlines the user’s experience by automating the configuration and management of the compute endpoint agent. Further, while this work is geared toward administrators, non-administrators can also benefit. Let's dig in.

NOAA Deploys Globus in R&D labs to accelerate data transfers

May 30, 2024 | Susan Tussy

Today, NOAA’s on-premises R&D HPC systems, as well as multiple public cloud storage systems, are accessible via Globus.

GridFTP: A Brief History of Fast File Transfer

April 16, 2024 | John Bresnahan

How GridFTP became the de facto standard for data transfer in the scientific community

Continuing Globus support for CC* Awardees in 2024

March 06, 2024 | Vas Vasiliadis

Free Globus subscriptions available to all new CC* awardees.

Introducing Globus Subscription Management

February 20, 2024 | Vas Vasiliadis

The Globus subscription management service adds a new level of convenience for subscription administrators and managers.

Globus Participates in Three-Year Program to Modernize the Earth Systems Grid Federation

February 12, 2024 | Lee Liming

Globus is involved in a three-year program to upgrade the ESGF data nodes operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Globus excels at large-scale data access. So the nodes are being upgraded to use lab-wide storage with Globus access rather than custom storage and data access systems purchased and operated by the climate research teams.

New Open OnDemand feature makes it easier to interact with external data from your cluster

November 14, 2023 | Lee Liming

If you manage a compute cluster for researchers and your cluster has both Open OnDemand and Globus, a new Open OnDemand feature makes it easier for your researchers to transfer files and folders between your cluster and external storage systems.

Globus JavaScript SDK Now Available

November 10, 2023 | Joe Bottigliero

Globus is excited to announce the immediate availability of JavaScript SDK, a core package in our growing JavaScript ecosystem. The release today offers support for a wide set of our platform APIs, including Transfer (and sharing), GCS Manager, Groups (V2), and more.

Globus and ACCESS Simplify Data Management for Supercomputer Users

September 15, 2023 | Lee Liming

One year into the new NSF ACCESS program, Globus and ACCESS continue to work together to simplify the data management experience in the nation’s premier open science computing environment.

Globus Accelerates Data Access and Sharing in Program to Fight Urban Climate Challenges

September 13, 2023 | Susan Tussy

Globus made it easy to move the data off the instruments, and share it out, and also complimented the existing infrastructure. Now they could simply install Globus Connect Personal on the systems with a filesystem and storage, create an endpoint, and immediately share the data with others.

Automate your data management tasks to accelerate discovery

July 11, 2023 | Susan Tussy

Today’s researchers must automate some of their data management tasks as they utilize the newest instruments, many of which generate terabytes of data daily. Globus Flows does just that. It defines and automates simple as well as complex, scalable multi-step, human-in-the-loop data flows securely and reliably.

Support for Globus Connect Server version 4 ends on December 18, 2023

June 21, 2023 | Brigitte Raumann

Globus Connect Server version 5 represents a major evolutionary step in the Globus Connect Server architecture and the latest release has been in production since July, 2020. Support for Globus Connect Server version 4 will be discontinued on December 18, 2023.