SETI@home Budget - Fall 2007 Report
Statement at the beginning of 2007:Below is our budget to get through the next phase of operations. Over the past year 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 maintain our multibeam data recorder installed at Arecibo - after a hiatus for telescope upgrades we are once again taking new data. We also wrapped up work on Astropulse which is currently in the final stages of beta testing. Continuing hardware donations from Sun, Intel, and Colfax, as well as free storage provided by HPSS helped to reduce our current budget. 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 |
Predicted |
Actually Spent |
Total Spent |
|
SETI@home |
|
|
123,000 |
|
Offline Data Analysis & RFI Rejection Hardware Radar Blanking Development/Implementation Trip for 2 to Arecibo - $2000 Actual hardware/fabrication - $1000 Incorporating in software - $20000 Software Radar Blanking $20000 student management/final code implementation |
37,000 |
43,000 |
|
|
SETI@home Upgrades and Bug Fixes Code optimization - sped up SETI@home up to 60% Developing, testing, distributing - $30000 Conversion to use new BOINC graphics code - $10000 |
26,000 |
40,000 |
|
|
Candidate Identification & Data Analysis Software (NTPCKR) Development, testing - $40000 |
55,000 |
40,000 |
|
|
Followup Observations of Best Candidates |
6,200 |
0 |
|
|
Astropulse |
|
|
59,500 |
|
Client application/data analysis software development Graduate student salary - $35000 Project management - $10000 |
26,000 |
45,000 |
|
|
Equipment: Database and server hardware Hard drives, enclosures, controllers - $7500 Server donations covered the remainder |
25,600 |
7,500 |
|
|
Candidate identification and followup observations |
32,000 |
7,000 |
|
|
Operations |
|
|
242,000 |
|
Internet connection and bandwidth charges Space Sciences Laboratory support services - $20000 Hurricane Electric ISP - $12000 |
65,700 |
32,000 |
|
|
Database administration and support |
53,400 |
60,000 |
|
|
Systems administration and support |
69,100 |
120,000 |
|
|
Server maintainence and preformance monitoring |
23,000 |
20,000 |
|
|
Web site development |
27,700 |
10,000 |
|
|
Upgrade to failure tolerant server configuration |
29,300 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
Total |
424,500 |
The above research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA as well
as from numerous and very generous donations from SETI@Home participants.
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SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.