Specialized File Transfer Service for Large Oil and Gas Datasets

GridFTP, included in the Globus Toolkit, is a high-performance, reliable and secure data transfer protocol used in Grid Computing. SETA, an acronym in Portuguese for Specialized File Transfer Service, is a web application developed using the Globus Java API [1], called jGlobus, and was inspired by Globus Online (GO) [2]. This tool was driven by the challenge of transferring huge data volumes between Petrobras and ANP (Brazilian National Petroleum Agency) and due to security policies that prevent the use of Globus Online. SETA provides several features like integrity checking and automatic retransmission of only corrupted blocks, transfer resume in case of data connection failure, TCP parallel data connections and scheduled transfers. SETA´s advantages against traditional solutions are shown in this work.