lgheron:tmp galen$ time gzip testfile real 1m58.435s user 1m57.066s sys 0m0.963s lgheron:tmp galen$ du -sh * 775M testfile.gz 1015M testfile.raw lgheron:tmp galen$ lgheron:tmp galen$ time gunzip testfile.gz real 0m7.097s user 0m6.320s sys 0m0.738s lgheron:tmp galen$ # gigE attached system - http://perfsonar.ncsa.illinois.edu:7123 # reports 900Mb/s lgheron:~ galen$ time ssh -l arnoldg cli.globusonline.org "scp arnoldg#macos:/Users/galen/tmp/testfile.raw ncsa#BlueWaters:/~/scratch/test/stripe4/testfile.raw" Task ID: 7240af52-4c83-11e3-99ff-12313d2005b7 Type to cancel or bg to background [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] 1/1 567.45 mbps real 0m17.235s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.007s lgheron:~ galen$ lgheron:~ galen$ time ssh -l arnoldg cli.globusonline.org "scp arnoldg#macos:/Users/galen/tmp/testfile.gz ncsa#BlueWaters:/~/scratch/test/stripe4/testfile.gz" Task ID: 92e74d60-4c83-11e3-99ff-12313d2005b7 Type to cancel or bg to background [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] 1/1 499.81 mbps real 0m15.205s user 0m0.009s sys 0m0.007s lgheron:~ galen$ ### moving the compressed file saved 2s . ### 2s [savings] < (118 + 7 )s [ the compress and decompress time ] ### conclusion: for files of this size and larger, it's faster to just do the ### transfer over this link speed # wifi (IllinoisNet) attached system - http://perfsonar.ncsa.illinois.edu:7123 # reports 30Mb/s lgheron:tmp galen$ time ssh -l arnoldg cli.globusonline.org "scp arnoldg#macos:/Users/galen/tmp/testfile.raw ncsa#BlueWaters:/~/scratch/test/stripe4/testfile.raw" Task ID: 23271cec-4c85-11e3-99ff-12313d2005b7 Type to cancel or bg to background [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] 1/1 39.41 mbps real 3m39.168s user 0m0.018s sys 0m0.033s lgheron:tmp galen$ lgheron:tmp galen$ time ssh -l arnoldg cli.globusonline.org "scp arnoldg#macos:/Users/galen/tmp/testfile.gz ncsa#BlueWaters:/~/scratch/test/stripe4/testfile.gz" Task ID: 0f4632ca-4c86-11e3-99ff-12313d2005b7 Type to cancel or bg to background [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] 1/1 34.75 mbps real 3m9.661s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.025s lgheron:tmp galen$ ### moving the compressed file saved ~ 20s . ### 20s [savings] < (118 + 7 )s [ the compress and decompress time ] ### conclusion: for files of this size and smaller, it's faster to just do the ### transfer over this link speed lgheron:tmp galen$ time cp newtestfile newtestfile.raw real 0m44.363s user 0m0.023s sys 0m8.734s lgheron:tmp galen$ time gzip newtestfile real 15m34.143s user 15m23.285s sys 0m7.625s lgheron:tmp galen$ du -sh new* 7.1G newtestfile.Z 6.1G newtestfile.gz 7.9G newtestfile.raw lgheron:tmp galen$ eron:tmp galen$ time ssh -l arnoldg cli.globusonline.org "scp arnoldg#macos:/Users/galen/tmp/newtestfile.raw ncsa#BlueWaters:/~/scratch/test/stripe4/newtestfile.raw" ... real 60m7.753s user 0m0.156s sys 0m0.158s lgheron:tmp galen$ lgheron:tmp galen$ time ssh -l arnoldg cli.globusonline.org "scp arnoldg#macos:/Users/galen/tmp/newtestfile.gz ncsa#BlueWaters:/~/scratch/test/stripe4/newtestfile.gz" ... [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] 1/1 21.82 mbps real 39m45.039s user 0m0.127s sys 0m0.109s lgheron:tmp galen$ ### rail from home arnoldg@rail:~$ time gzip XSEDE_tools_2013_Aug_30_0044.tar real 0m0.529s user 0m0.480s sys 0m0.044s arnoldg@rail:~$ du -sh XSEDE* 2.4M XSEDE_tools_2013_Aug_30_0044.tar.gz 6.8M XSEDE_tools_2013_Aug_30_0044.tar.raw arnoldg@rail:~$ arnoldg@rail:~$ time ssh cli.globusonline.org "scp arnoldg#rail:XSEDE_tools_2013_Aug_30_0044.tar.raw ncsa#BlueWaters:/~/scratch/test/stripe2/XSEDE_tools_2013_Aug_30_0044.tar.raw" X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 Task ID: b5b33288-4ce1-11e3-9a00-12313d2005b7 Type to cancel or bg to background [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] 1/1 0.85 mbps real 1m10.521s user 0m0.020s sys 0m0.008s arnoldg@rail:~$ arnoldg@rail:~$ time ssh cli.globusonline.org "scp arnoldg#rail:XSEDE_tools_2013_Aug_30_0044.tar.gz ncsa#BlueWaters:/~/scratch/test/stripe2/XSEDE_tools_2013_Aug_30_0044.tar.gz" X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 Task ID: edf203fe-4ce1-11e3-9a00-12313d2005b7 Type to cancel or bg to background [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] 1/1 0.77 mbps real 0m28.095s user 0m0.024s sys 0m0.000s arnoldg@rail:~$ # perfsonar shows 0.9 Mbits/s upload to Blue Waters arnoldg@rail:~$