Should I zip the files?

If you have multiple files and you expect researchers will want to download files in groups, consider what groupings they may want to download, for example, if you have daily data files for one or more years, will the user want to download by month or by year?

Zip the files into appropriate group sizes using the gzip utility on your High Performance Computing environment.

OR

If one or more of your files is larger than 10GB, use the gzip utility to zip the file.