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Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!)
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Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
I've always wanted to donate more to SETI@Home, but being a Canadian, I didn't think it would be tax-deductible. Amazingly I happened to stumble on this page and found I was incorrect. Yes, donations to SETI@Home are tax-deductible for Canadians if they are made through UC Berkeley. So, when I later found out that the Green Bank SETI@Home project needs this I was motivated to finally donate. What's this fundraiser for? The Green Bank Project is set to start early next year, and will bring a new radio telescope's data online for us to analyze. A new SETI@Home receiver at the Robert C. Byrd telescope at Green Bank (which is, incidentally, one of the largest, if not the largest, movable terrestrial objects ever built) will search for signals from star systems with extrasolar planets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. As always, our help is needed to get this underway by providing one of the critical components for the project. The terabytes of data collected need to be transported safely to SETI@Home's Berkeley Space Sciences Lab for processing and distribution to us to analyze. Due to the prohibitive cost and/or unavailablity of bandwidth at this location preventing using the internet for this, we need the Green Bank Data Transport Package, an array of 20 x 2 Terabyte hard drives, and a rugged, waterproof case to transport them in. Currently, the GPU Users' Group has collected $800 of the $2660 required for this, leaving $1860 left to raise. In this weekend challenge, I will match other SETI@Home contributors' donations up to half of the required amount minus overage, so that the exact total of $1860 is reached. So, if donations are:
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Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Just as a FYI we're fully behind this and are excited to work with Mr. Kevvy. Our newsletter on the subject should be distributed to those who have signed up http://www.gpuug.org to receive it. Thanks for your consideration in helping us promote science! Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
You just made a payment of $100.00 USD Paid to GPU Users Group, Inc. gpuugmain@gmail.com (People, when you post your donation tags, please be kind and delete Brad's phone number!!!) |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
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Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
MarkJ has just donated $500! This is utterly amazing! Only $180 more needed and three days to do it in! |
molestedbyasus Send message Joined: 3 Jun 00 Posts: 2 Credit: 13,383,882 RAC: 132 |
I will see if I can get anything from the PC Perspective crew. As opposed to money, are there specific drives you are looking for? |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
The goal has been reached, and surpassed. In only 6 hours, we've gone $100 over requirement... there are some fantastically generous people out there. Cumulative Donors + Totals. GamerNetz - $60 MarkJ - $500 Mark S. - $100 Angela Korpela - $100 Minitor - $10 Fred E. - $50 Speedbump - $100 Paul - $50 Geyser - $10 Arvid - $50 ----------------------------------------- Goal for contributions = $930 Total collected for this fundraiser = $1030 Total Over Goal = $100 So if you want to keep donating, as detailed above, it will be only benefitting me by lightening my contribution which currently stands at $1860 - $1030 = $830 I certainly won't complain, but I want to make this clear. I'll keep the original timeline and make my donation Monday night. Thank you to everyone who donated! |
Xael Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,069,518 RAC: 0 |
We received your gift of $180.00 via Visa on 10/05/2012. Your confirmation number is 98373 |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Cumulative Donors + Totals. GamerNetz - $60 MarkJ - $500 Mark S. - $100 Angela Korpela - $100 Minitor - $10 Fred E. $50 Speedbump - $100 Paul - $50 Geyser - $10 Arvid - $50 Mark K - $30 Xael - $180 Goal for user contributions = $930 Total collected for this fundraiser = $1240 Total Over Goal = $310 _________________________________________ In keeping with Mr. Kevvy's wishes, we'll keep the fundraiser open until Monday. As of now we've reached the total we need for the GBT Data Transport Package Fundraiser. So far, this fundraiser has been a resounding success with us achieving our goal in a scant handful of hours thanks to Mr. Kevvy's plan and the generosity of our donors. Thanks very much everyone. If you'd like to continue contributing toward either this fundraiser or in helping us finish our Hydrogen Array / SETI Data Storage fundraiser please do so by visiting: GBT Transport Fundraiser (General Pool) http://www.gpuug.org/content/setihome-green-bank-data-transport-package Hydrogen Array + SETI Storage Array (General Pool) http://www.gpuug.org/content/setihome-hydrogen-survey-seti-storage-array-hard-drives Donate a Drive (Both GBT Transport and Hydrogen Array) http://www.gpuug.org/content/cash-4-drive-hitachi-gst-deskstar-7k3000-hds723020bla642-2tb Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
I will see if I can get anything from the PC Perspective crew. As opposed to money, are there specific drives you are looking for? For our Hydrogen Array we need specifically http://www.compsource.com/pn/0F12115/Hitachi_196/Deskstar-7k3000-Hds723020bla642-Hard-Drive/ currently QTY 15 of these. For general transport drives we need either 2 or 3TB SATA drives, preferably 64MB 7200RPM drives. For example: 2TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834 3TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844 If you have any questions about donating hardware please feel free to contact me at brad@gpuug.org anytime. Thanks! Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
katsche Send message Joined: 5 Oct 01 Posts: 1 Credit: 401,303 RAC: 0 |
SETI@home - $100.00 Your confirmation number is: 98378 |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
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Luis de la Garza Send message Joined: 8 Nov 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 195,152 RAC: 0 |
Dear Luis de la Garza, ... SETI@home - $50.00 Your confirmation number is: 98379 |
Sp@ceNv@der Send message Joined: 10 Jul 05 Posts: 41 Credit: 117,366,167 RAC: 152 |
"You sent a payment of $100,00 USD to GPU Users Group, Inc. (gpuugmain@gmail.com)" "SETI@Home - Green Bank Data Transport Package Item# S@H-GBT-TRANS $100,00 USD 1 $100,00 USD " Voila.... It's been a long time since I've donated to this project dear to me ... I don't care for this green star, I do care for the project ... Please see to it, it will benefit the real hardware needs, Greez to all fellow crunchers out there Kind Belgian regards ;) To boldly crunch ... |
BlackD Send message Joined: 2 Jul 01 Posts: 3 Credit: 775,757 RAC: 0 |
$50 Donated through paypal to GPU Users Group Paid to GPU Users Group, Inc. gpuugmain@gmail.com Truth changes with experience |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
Totals thus far: $1644.43 donated through GPUUG $330 donated through Berkeley Total: $1974.43 We've already overshot the total $1860 by $174 and I haven't had to donate anything yet! So, anything over $1860 is going to this project: The Hydrogen Survey / SETI Storage Array Please use that link to donate from now on for donations through GPUUG! If you're donating through the Berkeley donation page in the Special instructions or designations for this gift text field, please put HI so that it's earmarked properly. x 40 This project will obtain 40 2TB drives, 24 for data storage for SETI@Home, saving $12-15 thousand annually in storage costs, and 16 for Dr. Eric Korpela's hydrogen survey project. Currently needs $1775, and I will contribute matching unless, of course, your donations go over 50% again! Since there's no more to donate to for the Green Bank Data Transport project, I'll be contributing to this one instead. Try to leave me something to do. ;^) |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Cumulative Donors + Totals for SETI Green Bank Telescope Package GamerNetz - $60 MarkJ - $500 Mark S. - $100 Angela Korpela - $100 Minitor - $10 Fred E. $50 Speedbump - $100 Paul - $50 Geyser - $10 Arvid - $50 Mark K - $30 Xael - $180 (SETI) Unknown - $19.23 GS - $10.00 Zerauth - $10.00 AppMech72 - $25.00 Sp@aceNv@der - $100.00 Gi1effe - $10.00 Unknown - $0.20 Unknown - $50.00 4Pablo2 - $20.00 Vincent - $15.00 Chris & Melissa Sievers - $25 JD - $10.00 Signots - $10.00 Unknown - $10.00 Unknown - $60.00 BlackD - $50.00 Dr. Doug - $100 Rick A. Sponholz - $10.00 Jazzwitherspoon - $25 Unknown - $20 Stephen Pisk - $20 Unknown - $10 Luis de la Garza - $50 (SETI) Katsche - $100.00 (SETI) ____________________________________________________________________ Goal for user contributions = $930 Total collected for this fundraiser = $1999.43 Total via SETI: $330 Total via GPUUG: $1669.43 Total as of the time of this post: $1999.43 *Note: Some donations have (Unknown) instead of a name. This is a result of either the donor not putting in a SETI Username or ID or lookup not being able to find their username. Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
As we have surpassed our goal for the Green Bank Telescope Array, Mr. Kevvy has offered to continue his matching pledge onto our Hydrogen Array Project. This array has two functions: 1. One portion of the JBOD will provide storage requirements for Dr. Korpela's Hydrogen Survey. 2. The remaining portion will serve as a test bed for on site storage for SETI at Home. Should the on site storage work out like we're hoping, we'll be able to significantly reduce the data storage costs for SETI by a large factor. Needs: At the time of this post we currently need to fund only 15 2TB drives to finish out this project. The total cost we need to raise is $1675.00 to fund these remaining drives. You can contribute to this project by visiting: 1. General Pool for our Hydrogen Project http://www.gpuug.org/content/setihome-hydrogen-survey-seti-storage-array-hard-drives 2. Donate a drive itself ($120 per drive) http://www.gpuug.org/content/cash-4-drive-hitachi-gst-deskstar-7k3000-hds723020bla642-2tb Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
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