Happy Eyeballs?

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Fri, 2025-02-14 at 16:53 -0500, Chris Rapier wrote:
> Now, the obvious alternative solution would be to just use 
> globus/gridftp but that now comes with licensing constraints that can
> make it less attractive for under-resourced institutions (to say
> nothing 
> of the higher administrative burden).

There are many widespread alternatives for moving large amounts of data
which are used in science.

I'm working in LHC context... dCache is open source and provides
WebDAV, GsiFTP, xroot, NFS4.1.
Most (all?) other projects of the DDM software stack are also open
source, e.g. rucio.


Cheers,
Chris.