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The address or location of a copy of a data item on a storage system.

• Often highly parallel
• Heavily batch oriented.
• Mostly heavily customized.

• Easier to change due to inherent customization.
• Already deployed in some Enterprise Grid contexts.
• Often driven by cooperative processing and some focus on standards support or interoperability.

In the simplest terms, a third party transfer moves a file between two GridFTP servers.

The following is a more detailed, programmatic description.

In a third party transfer, there are three entities involved. The client, who will only orchestrate, but not actually take place in the data transfer, and two servers one of which will be sending data to the other. This scenario is common in Grid applications where you may wish to stage data from a data store somewhere to a supercomputer you have reserved. The commands are quite similar to the client/server transfer. However, now the client must establish two control channels, one to each server. He will then choose one to listen, and send it the PASV command. When it responds with the IP/port it is listening on, the client will send that IP/port as part of the PORT command to the other server. This will cause the second server to connect to the first server, rather than the client. To initiate the actual movement of the data, the client then sends the RETR "filename" command to the server that will read from disk and write to the network (the "sending" server) and will send the STOR "filename" command to the other server which will read from the network and write to the disk (the "receiving" server).

See Also client/server transfer.

Uses transport-level security (TLS) mechanisms.

An aggregator service (in WS MDS) that collects information and compares that data against a set of conditions defined in a configuration file. When a condition is met, or triggered, the specified action takes place (for example, an email is sent to a system administrator when the disk space on a server reaches a threshold).

The directory containing the CA certificates and signing policy files of the CAs trusted by GSI. Typically this directory is /etc/grid-security/certificates. For more information see this.