Sharing data: Difference between revisions

Having to share some but not all of your data with a colleague or another research group is a common occurrence. Compute Canada systems provide a variety of mechanisms to facilitate this data sharing with colleagues. If the person you want to share the data with is a member of the same research group as you, then the best approach may be to make use of the [[Project_layout | project space]] that each research group has in common; if your research requires the creation of a group on one of the national clusters, you can request this by writing to [mailto:support@computecanada.ca Compute Canada support] since users cannot create their own groups. At the opposite extreme, if the person you need to share the data with doesn't even have an account on the cluster, you can use use [[Globus]] and in particular what is called a [[Globus#Globus_Sharing | shared endpoint]] to share the data. To handle the scenario of sharing with a colleague who has an account on the cluster but doesn't belong to a common research group with you, the simplest approach is to use the permissions available in the filesystem to share the data, the principal topic of this page.