Note

The Grid Community Toolkit documentation was taken from the Globus Toolkit 6.0 documentation. As a result, there may be inaccuracies and outdated information. Please report any problems to the Grid Community Forums as GitHub issues.

GCT → GridFTP

GridFTP is a high-performance, secure, reliable data transfer protocol optimized for high-bandwidth wide-area networks. The GridFTP protocol is based on FTP, the highly-popular Internet file transfer protocol. We have selected a set of protocol features and extensions defined already in IETF RFCs and added a few additional features to meet requirements from current data grid projects.

The following guides are available for this component:

Data Management Key Concepts

For important general concepts [pdf].

Admin Guide

For system administrators and those installing, building and deploying GCT. You should already have read the Installation Guide and Quickstart [pdf]

User’s Guide

Describes how end-users typically interact with this component. [pdf].

Developer’s Guide

Reference and usage scenarios for developers. [pdf].

Other information available for this component are:

Release Notes

What’s new with the 6.0 release for this component. [pdf]

Public Interface Guide

Information for all public interfaces (including APIs, commands, etc). Please note this is a subset of information in the Developer’s Guide [pdf].

Quality Profile

Information about test coverage reports, etc. [pdf].

Migrating Guide

Information for migrating to this version if you were using a previous version of GCT. [pdf]

All GridFTP Guides (PDF only)

Includes all GridFTP guides except Public Interfaces (which is a subset of the Developer’s Guide)