Moving data on/off the RDF to external sites
Three "Data Mover" nodes have been configured on the RDF. These enable access at times when HECToR is unavailable such as during maintenance sessions, and will provide direct 10gbit Ethernet connections to the outside world.
In additional to the normal unix data transfer commands such as scp the data mover nodes have been configured to use Grid-FTP. This is part of the Globus tool suite and provides a mechanism to efficiently move large volumes of data. Grid-ftp servers are currently available on the following data transfer nodes:
- dtn01.hector.ac.uk
- dtn02.hector.ac.uk
- dtn03.hector.ac.uk
