The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education has a videotape archive of nearly 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. The Institute works with a global network of partners to provide an array of valuable educational services that reach educators, students, and the general public around the world.
The Institute has a 200TB database at USC. Other caches are set up with a subset of the entire database (right now the most any other cache has is 20TBs, or 10% of the archive). End users make their request and if the video is available locally, it plays right away. If not, the server requests a transfer of the data from USC. A typical interview (or testimony) is 4GB per record.
Typical users request more than one interview, so there are multiples requested at the same time. Network performance to end sites varied widely.
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Collaborators:
USA:
University of Southern California (USC); University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Rice University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/RENCI; Duke University; North Carolina State University; Florida Atlantic University; University of Minnesota; UCSD; Syracuse University; Brown University; Columbia University; US Holocaust Memorial Museum; US
Australia:
Monash University
Germany:
Freie Universität Berlin
