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Globus Compute Past and Future

Josh Bryan – josh@globus.org

August 28, 2025

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Globus Compute

What have we been up to?

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High Assurance Support

  • Stronger authentication requirements
    • Recent In-Session Authentication
    • Specific Identity Providers
    • MFA requirements
  • Support usage with CUI / PHI
  • Audit Logging
  • Cloud services operational controls

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Administrative Console

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Flows Action Provider v3

  • Better support for multi-user endpoints
  • Improved serialization between AP and endpoint
  • Support for resource specification

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Globus SDK / CLI integration

  • Support for web API calls directly in Globus SDK
  • Endpoint management through SDK / CLI
  • Better authentication flow handling through Globus App
  • …. Lots of bug and papercut fixes

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What do we have planned?

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Templates for All

  • By default, single user endpoints will support templating
  • Unified execution model between single and multi-user endpoints
  • Support for more complex template structures
    • DRY: Importing templates
    • More context info for template administrators

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Better documentation

  • Better examples and tutorials
  • Better organization
  • Simplification of concepts

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And more

  • Pluggable serialization support for better integration with Parsl and less mismatched version issues
  • Some task lifecycle features
    • Clearing task queues
    • Better recovery from restarts
  • Console views for single user endpoints

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Thanks to Compute and Parsl Teams

  • Chris Janidlo
  • Kevin Hunter Kesling
  • Reid Mello
  • Lei Wang
  • Yadu Babuji
  • Kyle Chard
  • Ryan Chard
  • Ben Clifford

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Questions?