TITLE: Cloud Services for Research Data Management

WHEN: Thursday, October 25 @ 4:30pm

WHERE: Crerar 390

SPEAKERS:
- Steve Tuecke, Globus CEO and CTO

SUMMARY:
Globus’ mission is to accelerate and improve the practice of science. We develop, operate, and sell commercial-quality, cloud-based software application and platform services used by 10s of thousands of researchers globally to manage their large-and-growing data management challenges. Globus has become the preferred way to transfer, share, publish, discover, and automate research data for hundreds of organizations worldwide, handling several petabytes of data per week.

In this talk, I will introduce Globus and various challenges that it solves for scientists. Then I will explore the technology behind Globus, including the design, implementation, and operation of our various cloud-based services, built on Amazon Web Services; how we integrate with various on-prem and public cloud storage; and the Globus Auth security platform that underpins all of Globus and many third party apps and services. I will also discuss our future Globus Automate service for trigger-action based research automation.

We are looking for a few great programmers to join our team (globus.org/jobs). We operate as a sustainable, non-profit business within The University of Chicago, run like a startup.   We have offices in downtown Chicago, Chicago’s western-suburbs, and San Diego, plus many remote employees.  Come learn more about what we do and how we do it, and meet some of the Globus team.

SPEAKER BIO:
Steven Tuecke is co-founder and CEO of Globus (www.globus.org), with a focus on delivering commercial-quality, cloud-based software application and platform services to global, non-profit research communities, as a sustainable, non-profit business within the University of Chicago (UC). From 2009-2016, Tuecke was also Deputy Director of the Computation Institute at UC. Prior to UC, Steven was co-founder, CEO and CTO of Univa Corporation from 2004-2008, providing open source and proprietary software for the high-performance computing and cloud computing markets.  Before that, he spent 14 years at Argonne National Laboratory as research staff. Tuecke graduated with a B.A in mathematics and computer science from St. Olaf College.