Collected list of tools and protocol development and current status:


Aspera/FASP

URL:

https://www.ibm.com/products/aspera/technology

Status:

Production

Protocol

User groups: 

IBM Cloud Private (ICP) environments

end points that use IBM Aspera file transfer software

GridFTP

URL:

http://toolkit.globus.org/

Status:

Ended

Software

User groups: 

Grid community

Globus toolkit

Multicore-Aware Data Transfer Middleware (MDTM)

URL:

https://mdtm.fnal.gov/

Status:

Ongoing

MDTM middleware

mdtmFTP software/protocol

User groups: DOE

Xrootd

URL:

https://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/

Status:

Ongoing development

open-source protocol

User groups: -


LFTP

URL:

http://lftp.yar.ru/

Status:

Ended development

Software

User groups: 

Open-source

Fast Data Transfer FDT

URL:

https://github.com/fast-data-transfer/fdt

Status:

Ended development

Software

User groups: 

Open-source

BBCP

URL:

https://github.com/slaclab/bbcp

Status:

Ended development

Software

User groups: 

Open-source