abstract:GridFTP is an extension of the standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for high-speed, reliable, and secure data transfer.Allcock, William, John Bresnahan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Michael Link, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, and Ian Foster.
Thetechniquein this articlehasbeensuccessfullyappliedto a filetransferportlet that makes use of the GridFTPprotocol for managinglargedatasetsbetweentwothird-partydatagridnodes.