Hi, General: Is there a quantifiable difference in data uploads, speed of processing, general availability after the connection was/is established to Pittsburgh? Specific: If we loaded data to a common directory on an XSEDE resource, would our students be able to fetch this data in a more timely manner to their galaxy accounts then from desktops etc... For us it would be easy to populate a common directory once then our users could fetch/wget etc... from there, or if possible could such directory be directly visible to our set of galaxy users? (this is what we do locally) - but one would need admin priv for that on the main instance. Or would you just do this with one galaxy user sharing out the files for the rest of a group working together? thanks. joe