Highlights from GlobusWorld 2025
June 30, 2025 | HPCwire
By Susan Tussy
GlobusWorld 2025, now in its 23rd year, brought together over 130 researchers, system administrators, developers, and IT leaders from 42 top research computing centers, national laboratories, federal agencies, and universities worldwide. The conference serves as a forum for insights into new methods for managing research storage and computation at scale, as well as for building cutting-edge data portals and science gateways that advance scientific research.
Reimagining Research IT
GlobusWorld 2025 hosted a diverse lineup of invited speakers spanning the gamut of research computing and data professionals, as well as researchers themselves. Brian Roland from Northwestern University presented their enterprise implementation of Globus Connect Server on Amazon Web Services and how they are managing the migration of a research data archive from on-premise storage to AWS S3 at their institution. Rick Wagner, CTO of the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), talked about the deployment of Globus Compute multi-user endpoints on SDSC’s Expanse system and how the service can standardize programmatic access across SDSC’s HPC resources, thereby enhancing security, access modalities, integration, and automation.
Dimitrios Bellos, a research software engineer at the Rosalind Franklin Institute (RFI) in the UK, was awarded this year’s Globus Community Award for his extensive work with the Globus platform and for championing its broad deployment as a critical technology at RFI. Bellos commented, “I am deeply honored and grateful to receive this year’s Globus Community Award! This award means a lot not only to me but to the whole Advanced Research Computing (ARC) team here at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, and we truly appreciate the recognition. The hard work that it represents is part of a team effort between Franklin’s ARC team and the Globus Support team.”
Both days included well-attended sessions of Globus Office Hours—everyone’s favorite time—where Globus developers dive in and address attendees’ questions about the service.