While not a personal experience, I think that the NY Times effort to convert 4TB of TIFFS to 11 million PDFs using Hadoop + EC2 + S3 might be of interest: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hadoop-ec2-s3-super-alternatives-for.html
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