striping

When speaking about GridFTP transfers, striping refers to having multiple network endpoints at the source, destination, or both participating in the transfer of the same file. This is normally accomplished by having a cluster with a parallel shared file system. Each node in the cluster reads a section of the file and sends it over the network. This mode of transfer is necessary if you wish to transfer a single file faster than a single host is capable of. This also tends to only be effective for large files, though how large depends on how many hosts and how fast the end-to-end transfer is. Note that while it is theoretically possible to use NFS for the shared file system, your performance will be poor, and would make using striping pointless.