SETI@home Budget - Fall 2006

Below is our budget to get through the next phase of operations. Over the past six months we were able to get enough donations to tackle some of the projects noted in our previous budget. With these funds we were able to get a new multibeam data recorder installed at Arecibo and are already taking new data. We also made some progress in ramping down SETI@home I and ramping up Astropulse. Equipment donations from Sun and Intel, as well as free storage provided by HPSS have significantly helped to reduce our budget as well. Still, there is work to do on all fronts, and as long as we have data to crunch, there will be operational expenses.

Project/Task	Subtotal	Total
SETI@home I		$65,700
Offline Data Analysis & RFI Rejection	$22,000
Candidate Identification	37,500
Followup Observations of Best Candidates	6,200
SETI@home II		149,200
New Client Application Software Development	98,800
Candidate Identification & Data Analysis Software	50,400
Astropulse ¹		92,700
Client application/data analysis software development	45,000
Equipment: Database and server hardware	19,400
Candidate identification and followup observations	28,300
Operations		230,400
Internet connection and bandwidth charges	59,700
Database administration and support	48,500
Systems administration and support	62,800
Server maintainence and preformance monitoring	20,900
Web site development	25,200
Upgrade to failure tolerant server configuration	13,300
	Total	538,000

¹ More information about Astropulse can be found here.