Hello, my name is Steven Lee. I'm the founder of SermonAudio. Here's a little update on the state of affairs with The Vault on the campus of Bob Jones University. You see, we have over 2,500 core CPUs. We have the world's most powerful GPU, the H100. We have almost 3 petabytes of raw storage. We have almost 8 terabytes of RAM. And this equipment needs to stay cool so we had a dedicated cooling unit just recently installed and completed and it's good to go. We also just came through a pretty bad storm it was called Hurricane Helene and it took out a lot of power in our area and caused a lot of devastation in other areas, and even for The Vault we lost power for a number of days. We need to take the next step. And that is to build out not only this Vault but we need to start building out multiple Vault sites, all over the world. Back in the old days, they would have scribes that would make copies of the Scriptures. And that's all they did. They made copies so that if they lost one copy or if it was destroyed, they would have multiple other copies. And that's no different today. You need to have multiple copies of data. In the world of computers, it is never a good situation when you have a single point of failure or a single copy of data. Having three of something, often referred to as N+2 redundancy, especially in different geographic locations, is considered ideal for a truly redundant system of high availability. However, the Bible actually talks a lot about the four corners of the world. For example, in Revelation chapter 7 verse 1, it reads, And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth. The four corners of the earth is a figure of speech of saying the entire world. It has long been our desire to reach those four corners, both physically and figuratively. By establishing this Vault Network across the four geographic locations or more worldwide, we will achieve the strongest fault tolerance by maintaining multiple copies of the entire sermon library. This is actually the key that will ensure the long survival of this treasure far into the future. A number of weeks ago, we took the first step and we brought a small team and getting Vault #2 site online and up and running. It is very important. This is the next step. You can't just have data in the one location. You must have copies. And if we're serious and we are that we want to ensure that this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations, to the very end of time, then we have to take every step and make every effort to ensure the preservation and the propagation of sound preaching. We hope you'll continue with us on this journey as we build out the Vault Network. God bless you.
In the world of computers, it is never a good situation to have a single point of failure, or a single copy of data. Having three of something—often referred to as "N+2 redundancy"—especially in different geographic locations, is considered ideal for truly redundant and highly reliable systems.
However, the Bible talks a lot about the "four corners of the world" and it has long been our desire to reach those four corners, both figuratively and physically, with the preaching of the Gospel. By establishing a Vault Network across four geographic locations worldwide, we will achieve the strongest fault tolerance by maintaining multiple full copies of the entire sermon library with distributed load. It is the ultimate protection measure that will ensure the long survival of this treasure far into the future.