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Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 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 |
Here's our newsletter about this fundraiser. http://www.gpuug.org/content/oct-05-2012-update-special-fundraiser We're very excited to be working with interested donors such as Kevin in order to provide hardware, software and funds to SETI. With each donation we receive, we strengthen the infrastructure of the project and ultimately can do more science. Also as of the time of this post, we've already taken in $100 from Mrs. Korpela which leaves us at $1680 to raise. Thanks everyone for your interest. I'm hoping this fundraiser is a big success so we can utilize similar methods for our upcoming projects. If you have any questions about this fundraiser, don't hesitate to email me at the address below. Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 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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MarkJ Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 1139 Credit: 80,854,192 RAC: 5 |
I don't think I'll let him get away with it. Just donated $500 via GPUUG (donation #605) Cheers, MarkJ BOINC blog |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
I don't think I'll let him get away with it. Just donated $500 via GPUUG (donation #605) That is absolutely staggering and thank you! I hope you can at least write some of that off. :^) Unbelievable... only a few hours into this (with three days allotted) and we're already 80% done, with only $180 left to raise (and of course, any overage that only I will be thankful for!) |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
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MarkJ Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 1139 Credit: 80,854,192 RAC: 5 |
I don't think I'll let him get away with it. Just donated $500 via GPUUG (donation #605) Unfortunately not BOINC blog |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
Unfortunately not Well that only makes it all the more impressive. 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! |
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 |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 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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Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Current Fundraiser Donors to the Hydrogen Array + SETI Storage System: JRidder - $20 Ghani - $100 Chris & Melissa Sievers - $25 Unknown - $200 Bill G - $25 Lelton Woodham - $50 TheClap - $25 (SETI) Goal: $1800 Total Raised: $445 Total Remaining: $1355 Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Current Fundraiser Donors to the Hydrogen Array + SETI Storage System: JRidder - $20 Ghani - $100 Chris & Melissa Sievers - $25 Unknown - $200 Bill G - $25 Lelton Woodham - $50 TheClap - $25 (SETI) BDog - $100 (SETI) SBHink - $100 Margo - $10 Unknown - $50 Mike C - $100 CiscoM - $100 Pjvj77 - $15 Goal: $1800 Total Raised: $920 Total Remaining: $880 Big thanks to all of our generous donors. We're closing in on finishing this fundraiser up as well. Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Current Fundraiser Donors to the Hydrogen Array + SETI Storage System: JRidder - $20 Ghani - $100 Chris & Melissa Sievers - $25 Unknown - $200 Bill G - $25 Lelton Woodham - $50 TheClap - $25 (SETI) BDog - $100 (SETI) SBHink - $100 Margo - $10 Unknown - $50 Mike C - $100 CiscoM - $100 Pjvj77 - $15 Unknown - $100 Bobo - $100 Unknown -$100 MrMac52 -$120 (donated a drive) Goal: $1800 Total Raised: $1340 Total Remaining: $460 Big thanks to all of our generous donors. We're closing in on finishing this fundraiser up as well. *If the name shows 'Unknown' it simply means the donation didn't include a SETI user name or project ID. If you see your donation as unknown please get in touch with me via email. Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
What can I say... this fundraising weekend has completely exceeded my expectations. I expected that maybe we'd collect $930 for the Green Bank Data Transport package in three days. Instead, that was collected in only a few hours, and we've taken in... $3419.43 Not only was the Green Bank Package taken care of completely by donors without me having to match donations, but we're only a few hundred from also getting the Hydrogen Array + SETI Storage System, and it isn't even Monday yet! This would leave me nothing to kick in for. The original promise was that I would match contributions up to $930, half of the original amount required for the Green Bank Package. Even though far less than this is now required, I would be doing a disservice to this awesomely generous community if I did any less, so... Thank you for your gift of $930.00 via Visa on 10/07/2012. Your gift was assigned to the following areas: SETI@home - $930.00 Your confirmation number is: 98420 Any excess funds donated through GPUUG can be put to work on the next project by Slavac, who I'd like to thank for doing an amazing and diligent job tracking all the donations while I was busy with other things this weekend. Thank you again to everyone who donated! |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
Summary of Donations: Green Bank Telescope Data Transport Package (20 2TB drives and protective Turtle Case) 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 = $1880 Total Donated via SETI Website: $330 Total Donated via GPUUG: $1669.43 Total Collected for this fundraiser: $1999.43 ____________________________________________________________________ Hydrogen Survey / SETI Data Storage Hard Drive Fundraiser Donors to the Hydrogen Array + SETI Storage System: JRidder - $20 Ghani - $100 Chris & Melissa Sievers - $25 Unknown - $200 Bill G - $25 Lelton Woodham - $50 TheClap - $25 (SETI) BDog - $100 (SETI) SBHink - $100 Margo - $10 Unknown - $50 Mike C - $100 CiscoM - $100 Pjvj77 - $15 Unknown - $100 Bobo - $100 Unknown -$100 MrMac52 -$120 (donated a drive) Phijames - $25 Jerold Russell - $50 Mr. Kevvy - $930 (SETI) Goal: $1800 Total Raised via SETI Website: $1055 Total Raised via GPUUG: $1290 Total Collected for this Fundraiser: $2345 _____________________________________________________________________ Hardware Purchases: QTY 12 Green Bank Transport Drives (For purchase by SETI) (Order Pending) QTY 8 Green bank Transport Drives Purchased by GPUUG (Ordered 10/7/2012) QTY 1 Turtle Waterproof Hard Drive Transport Case Purchased by GPUUG (Ordered 10/7/2012) QTY 16 Hydrogen / SETI Storage Array Hard Drives Purchased by GPUUG (Ordered 10/7/2012) We've ordered all of the above (minus the drives for SETI to order) as of today. You can see these purchases by visiting http://www.gpuug.org/purchases That wraps up this fundraiser for the weekend. I'd like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who helped make this fundraiser a huge success. In one fell swoop, thanks to the initiative of Mr. Kevvy we have finished two projects for SETI at Home. _______________________________________________________________ What this fundraiser means for the project: Green Bank: SETI at Home will now have 20 2TB hard drives (total of 40TB) with which to transport data between our observation telescopes and the SETI labs. These drives specifically are Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Drives. Thanks to this fundraiser they will also have a Turtle Hard Drive Transport case which is essentially a Pelican case specifically designed for 20 hard drives at a go. We've tested these cases now for several months and thus far they've performed great. They're a huge improvement over our standard cardboard and foam transport boxes. This case is specifically the case found at this link http://www.turtlecase.com/productdetails.aspx?productid=603 Hydrogen / SETI Storage Array: We've purchased the remaining 16 hard drives for the SETI Hydrogen / Storage array. For those unaware, this array will utilize one partition of drives to fulfill the needs of the lab's Hydrogen Array. The other partition will serve as a test bed for SETI Data Storage. Our hopes are that in house data storage will be successful. If so, we will be moving toward increasing our in house data storage for SETI at Home, a prospect which will save the lab a significant amount of money which in turn will free up funding for other improvements in the lab. Prior to this Weekend Fundraiser, we had purchased 20 drives for the Hydrogen / Storage array and when coupled with today's purchases, we've completely filled the JBOD. For this array we've purchased 36 of these drives in total http://www.compsource.com/pn/0F12115/Hitachi_196/Deskstar-7k3000-Hds723020bla642-Hard-Drive/ ________________________________________________________________ Closing Notes: I'd like to sincerely thank Mr. Kevvy for spearheading this fundraising weekend and our wonderful donors for contributing a stunning amount of funds. It makes me proud to see so many donors helping to improve the infrastructure of this project. Lastly if you'd like to help contribute to SETI, please consider a donation to the 2012 Marathon Pledge Drive. You can read all about this fundraiser by visiting http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=68862 Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. - brad@gpuug.org |
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