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From GridFTP to the Globus Transfer Service: Two Decades of Scientific Data Movement

DescriptionThe SC25 Test of Time Award recognizes the lasting impact of The Globus Striped GridFTP Framework and Server, presented at SC05. This talk will trace the journey from GridFTP to the Globus Transfer service, highlighting the architectural innovations that enabled secure, high-performance, and scalable data movement for science. The SC05 paper introduced design principles of modularity, extensibility, and robustness that have stood the test of time. These principles supported deployment in research networks worldwide, adoption across major scientific collaborations in physics, climate science, and astronomy, and high-performance demonstrations at successive SC conferences. Building on this foundation, GridFTP evolved into today’s Globus service, which now supports hundreds of thousands of researchers, tens of thousands of endpoints, and billions of transfers annually. We will reflect on key lessons learned in building infrastructure that not only met immediate needs but also continues to adapt over decades of scientific and technological change.

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