Scientific Computing Training: Data Transfer Tools

Instructor: Ben Trumbore

Description: An introduction to the numerous tools that can be used to transfer data between computer systems and to cloud storage. Different tools offer different transfer speeds, security, and ease of use, and some automatically recover from failures and allow syncing between systems. Tools covered in this session include FTP, SCP, SFTP, rsync, rclone and Globus.

Prereqs: Familiarity with basic Linux commands.