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The SCP provided by the OpenSSH-HPN project is performance optimized. You can find it on the head-node and compute-0-2 under /opt/openssh-hpn/bin. It works otherwise exactly like regular OpenSSH/SCP.
LOC=/opt/openssh-hpn/bin $ $LOC/scp largefile $USER@blacklight.psc.teragrid.org: largefile 100% 765MB 2.2MB/s 1.6MB/s 05:42
Your times will vary, depending on network traffic: we've observed speeds between 1.6 and 40MB/s.