The StarLight Consortium is a founding member of the Global Research Platform (GRP) initiative, an international scientific collaboration established to create innovative advanced services that integrate world-wide resources at speeds of gigabits and terabits per second, especially for data-intensive science research. GRP focuses on design, implementation, and operation strategies for next-generation distributed services and infrastructure to facilitate high-performance data gathering, analytics, transport, computing, and storage among multiple science sites at 100 Gbps or higher (400 Gbps-800 Gbps-1.6 Tbps). The GRP functions as a prototype services platform and as a testbed for experimental research. GRP community partners in North America (e.g., for example, interconnected with the US National Research Platform - NRP), Asia (e.g., interconnected with the Asia Pacific Research Platform – APRP ), Europe, and South America are researching and developing new services architecture and technology to support optimal data-intensive scientific workflows. Essentially, the GRP is a worldwide Science DMZ, a distributed environment for data-intensive research. The GRP leverages optical circuits and open exchange facilities provided by its collaborators, including the 100 Gbps Global Research Platform Network (GRPnet that provides services between the Pacific Wave at the Pacific Northwest GigaPoP in Seattle, with extensions to Sunnyvale and Los Angeles California) and the StarLight International/National Communications Exchange Facility.