GINSC2007-015: GridFTP2 Demo

@ Booth: NorduGrid Collaboration (Booth #173)

Contact: Anders Rhod Gregersen

Title: "GridFTP2 protocol implementation"

Abstract: The GridFTP protocol was introduced in 2003 as an Open Grid Forum (OGF) recommendation in GFD.20 . A few months after GFD.20 , GFD.21 pointed out limitations and problems in GFD.20 . Some problems were introduced by GFD.20 , and others were inherited from the FTP protocol. To address these problems, GFD.47 introduced the GridFTP v2 protocol in 2005. Since then, the protocol has remained in draft status, without any implementations. Until now, that is.

A subset of the GridFTP2 protocol as defined in GFD.47 is by now implemented in dCache and Globus C and Java client libraries. It is currently used in production at NDGF.