Donate Hardware to SETI@home

Along with financial contributions, we are also looking for specific hardware donations. Following is a list of items we hope to obtain in the near future.

(Last updated: March 13, 2008)

1	Near Time Persistency Checker compute server: At least eight 64 bit CPU cores (8 single core, 4 dual core or 2 quad core) 32-64GB RAM At least 2 root drives, >500GB disk space total (Current situation: We do not have any server slated for this purpose)
2	Web servers (for public facing sites): At least dual 32 bit CPUs (with either dual core or hyper threading) 8GB RAM (more is always better) At least 2 root drives of any modern size (Current situation: Using two Sun 220Rs - solid but old/slow/inadequate for our needs)
1	Workunit download server: At least dual 32 bit CPU (with either dual core or hyper threading), 16GB RAM At least 2 root drives of any modern size (Current situation: Using a 4 x dual-core 3GHz Xeon w/ 16 GB RAM slated for much needed BOINC backend processing but have no other adequate available download servers)
1	NAS box or general-purpose machine to use as a NAS box: At least 3TB storage Internal HW stats: at least dual 32 bit CPU (with either dual core or hyper threading) and 16GB RAM (Current situation: Using a NetApp filer which has been great but due to advanced age its drives are quickly dying and it's getting impossible to find replacement drives it supports)
2	Desktop machines: Prefer small form factor and quiet (example: Shuttle) One or more modern CPUs, 2GB RAM, 250GB drive, DVD writer (Current situation: Some of us are still using Sun Ultras approaching 10 years old)
1	UPS: APC Smart-UPS 2200VA (rack mount version) with UPS Network Management Card (Current situation: Most, but not all, of our important servers are on UPS)

If you have any interest in making such a donation, please send questions/comments to: donors@ssl.berkeley.edu.

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