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Ian Foster, The Discovery Cloud Presentation, US Ignite Application Summit 2013
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“When the network is as fast as the computer’s
internal links, the machine disintegrates across the net into a set of special purpose
appliances”(George Gilder, 2001)
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A time of disruptive changeAs evidenced by cost per human genome
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We asked ourselves:
What if the research work flow could be managed as
easily as……our pictures
…home entertainment…our e-mail
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We aspire (initially) to create a great user
experience forresearch data managementWhat would a
“dropbox for science” look like?
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• Collect•Move• Sync• Share• Analyze
• Annotate• Publish• Search• Backup• Archive
BIG DATA…for
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• Collect•Move• Sync• Share• Analyze
• Annotate• Publish• Search• Backup• Archive
BIG DATA…for
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DataSource
DataDestinatio
n
User initiates transfer request
1
Globus Online moves/syncs files
2
Globus Online notifies user
3
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Early adoption is encouraging
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Early adoption is encouraging
10,000 registered users; ~100 daily~18 PB moved; ~1B files
10x (or better) performance vs. scp99.9% availability
Entirely hosted on Amazon
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• Collect•Move• Sync• Share• Analyze
• Annotate• Publish• Search• Backup• Archive
BIG DATA…for
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We aim to accelerate discovery by many more people at substantially lower cost … by outsourcing discovery tasks to science cloud services
The Discovery Cloud
www.globusonline.org
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