Mr Ryan Fraser1, Dr Claire Rye, Mr Chris Myers, Mr Richard Tumaliuan
1Aarnet, Perth, Australia
In order to lower barriers and to normalise moving substantial volumes of data to enable data intensive science in Australia and New Zealand; a uniform, parallel and secure data transfer and management service is needed. Too often, researchers have been resorting to using portable storage devices to move data around as transfers fail. A democratised service to support data movement, leveraging the network was needed.
Both Australia and New Zealand (through AARNet and NESI respectively) have adopted Globus. Globus is a service that leverages high-bandwidth networks to provide fast, parallel and secure file transfers and data management; has proved to be well equipped to support researchers and importantly research infrastructure service providers in meeting their transfer and data movement needs.
The deployment of Globus across Australia started in 2021, and has seen good uptake so far, making the most of the extremely high-bandwidth network capacity that is available within (and out of) Australia for the research and education sector.
New Zealand has utilised Globus since 2014, this expanded in 2019, launching a new and improved National Data Transfer Platform in partnership with Globus and the national research and education network REANNZ and are driving adoption widely across the research system.
We will present the early results and learnings, along with future-plans for rollout across Australia and New Zealand to support growing data needs of researchers, particularly trans-Tasman. Further, we will highlight the opportunities for the sector be that researchers, infrastructure and service providers through the utilisation of this service.
Biography:
Ryan Fraser has had a career working with many amazing researchers, developers and analysts in multiple sectors delivering innovative solutions to support industry and research programs. Ryan currently has the privilege to continue his career at AARNet and support an amazing team delivering eInfrastructure for the Australian R&E sector. Ryan is the Manager of Research eInfrastructure & Engagement at AARNet.