Transferring large files to remote sites: an update
Chris M. Maynard, Skip Booth · 2007
Transferring large files to remote sites is revisited in the light of two new de-velopments. The UK academic network has now been upgraded to SuperJANET5. The successor service to HPCx, the HECToR machine, will be located at the ACF, University of Edinburgh. Transferring data to HECToR from HPCx will be an important issue for the new service. This is a Technical Report from the HPCx Consortium c © HPCx UoE Ltd 2007 Neither HPCx UoE Ltd nor its members separately accept any responsibility for loss or damage from the use of information contained in any of their reports or in any commu-nication about their tests or investigations. A year ago a HPCx Technical Report [1] explored transferring large files between various remote machines. The aim of this report was to compare two different methods, scp and gridftp. The latter was clearly better, for two fairly obvious reasons, viz. the different encryption practice of the two methods, and the ability of gridftp to invoke