The NY Times did this using Amazon Web Services to process all their TIFFs (into PDFs, but thumbnailing isn't really different). They uploaded 4TB of data to A

The NY Times did this using Amazon Web Services to process all their TIFFs (into PDFs, but thumbnailing isn't really different). They uploaded 4TB of data to Amazon over the internet, but today you could just send them a hard drive and they'll copy it onto S3 for you. NYT: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorated-super-computing-fun/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorat... and http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/the-new-york-times-archives-amazon-web-services-timesmachine/ http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/the-new-york-times-... AWS Import/Export: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/