For the record, Sun Microsystems has always been insanely generous as long as I worked here at the lab (13+ years). Intel has been great, too.
- Matt

I kinda thought Sun Microsystems was a donor...(pics I saw of the closet) I didn't know about Intel.. good for them! I guess in the end it's all about exposure to most of the computer companies.. I guess thats why Dell gave away so much to talk shows last Xmas... And.. I think there is more deductions for advertising than for donations but I'd need to ask a CPA on that one.. ;)
... dot com bubble.. yeah.. the now dot GONE bubble.. I'm originally from Seattle and as you know.. many of the .coms companies strated up there.. and failed. My ex-wife worked for one.. one week.. their stock was trading for 123.00/share, week later, under 50 cents.. lost a lotta coin on that one like many others.. oh well.. it could be worse.. I could be an Obama supporter :)

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Not Ready Reading BRAIN. Abort/Retry/Fail?

the University is already supporting the project with free rooms, free access to the campus net, part of the salaries for the project personnel, etc...

I appreciate the explanation - but actually this is wrong on all three accounts.

UC takes a small cut of all money we bring in (grants, donations). In return they provide basic infrastructure (offices, desks, chairs, sometimes server racks they were otherwise going to throw away) and services (payroll, grant preparation, donation processing). The network infrastructure is extra. We get charged per IP address/server on the net, and at this point pay for most of our bandwidth beyond the campus net ourselves. And not one cent of our salary comes from the university.

- Matt

OK, I stand (sit, really ;) ) corrected...

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

(Source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley)

...Sun Microsystems, Google, and Microsoft are funding a $7.5 (SEVEN POINT FIVE!!!) million dollar for Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems Laboratory at Berkeley to develop more reliable computing systems.

(Source: Me)
So, few thousand bucks for SETI's more reliable server computing systems won't be such a big deal I guess?


.:ExNor:.

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(Source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley)

...Sun Microsystems, Google, and Microsoft are funding a $7.5 (SEVEN POINT FIVE!!!) million dollar for Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems Laboratory at Berkeley to develop more reliable computing systems.

(Source: Me)
So, few thousand bucks for SETI's more reliable server computing systems won't be such a big deal I guess?


.:ExNor:.

Unfortunately SETI resides in the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), not the Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems (RADS) Laboratory. I doubt SETI will see any of that money.

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Unfortunately SETI resides in the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), not the Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems (RADS) Laboratory. I doubt SETI will see any of that money.

Correct: we will see $0 of that.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

...Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems (RADS) Laboratory. ...

OMG ... there's an anti-Boinc laboratory now?

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

Ohhh, it makes me think (good god, that can't be!), that this epic project is slowly decaying into obscurity, please don't let that ever happen, for the sake of late sir Arthur C. Clarke and for the sake of our civilization! I'm sure that one of this days to come, we will woke up to see - "There is a massage for you!" on our screens. Keep on crunching...

.:ExNor:.