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Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
We've started our annual fundraising drive to help raise the money we need to keep SETI@home running and expand it to new telescopes. Your computers provide us with the power to analyze this data, but your donations are an important part of keeping us operating. If you haven't yet received your fundraising letter, you can preview it here. You can donate at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_donate.php. Thanks for keeping SETI@home going! @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Eric, please read my Message 1898921 Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30922 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I suggest to anyone thinking of giving that they do so now so. I hope the proposed tax plan doesn't cut off deductions for giving, but it may. Give today. |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
Hi Keith, I haven't made a 2017 budget, but it won't be significantly different from last years. Of course, this is a desired budget. The reality is rarely what we desired. In the last year we received about $90k in donations and $150k from Breakthrough Listen. Call it $240k total. The current staff is me at 75% time, Jeff at about 50% time, and David at about 25% time. That costs us about $220k (including health insurance, benefits, overhead). We would like to hire a sysadmin to replace Matt and a postdoc to work on SETI@home version 10. We've identified some sources of funding that would allow us to make such hires on a "funding available" basis, but finding a good sysadmin that isn't already overemployed can be tough. Finding a postdoc who is both qualified and interested can be difficult as well. Our data center charges run about $650 per month, so there's $8k. That leaves us about $12k for other expenses, replacement parts, a GPU here or there. I haven't charged SETI@home for any of my travel to conferences in the last two years (I've paid out of my own pocket) to save money. The big additional expense this coming year is a 300TB storage/splitting system for the Parkes data, which will run about $30k. I was hoping to make that a special part of this funding drive, but I rand out of time. Eric @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24905 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Done. About time I got that little star back :-) |
DaFrog Send message Joined: 3 Apr 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 778,699 RAC: 0 |
Tried give on the website, but the form would not work without a phone number. Too bad. Why do you make a phone number required? You have my email and I have an account. Fix the form and I'll donate. Don't and I won't. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24905 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Whenever I come across that on International websites, I enter +44 800 0000007, works everytime. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30922 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Tried give on the website, but the form would not work without a phone number. Too bad. Why do you make a phone number required? You have my email and I have an account. Fix the form and I'll donate. Don't and I won't. That would be the UC Giving office a/k/a The Regents of the University of California. Seti@home has no control over the policies of the Regents but must abide by them. http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/ P.S. you don't have to give them your number, just a number in the format of a valid phone number eg (202) 456-1111* the White House |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36333 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
300TB storage/splitting system @ $30,000That works out at $100/Tb. I assume we are talking SSD drives here? If so what size of drive are we thinking of? 30 x 10Tb, 60 x 5 Tb? 100 x 3 Tb? I ask because there may be some mileage in splitting the $30K into chunks i.e. you buy Seti your own drive with your name on it. Sort of harks back to the days of GPUUG when they had a shopping list you could pick from. Now read that again, "300TB storage/splitting system @ $30,000", which is not just drives. There's the drives' enclosure/s plus what ever CPU cores are necessary to cater for it as well as all the hardware required for the splitters. There's a lot more to it than what you have read into it. ;-) Cheers. |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
Yes, it's the high end CPUs and the half terabyte of RAM that get it up there. We've thought about a separate system for the CPUs and low end CPUs/small RAM in the storage box, but that adds to network costs. The system drives would be SSD, but the data drives would be plain old 10TB spinners in RAID 6 configuration. We haven't chosen which RAID cards, but they'd probably be high end LSI. I wish LSI had ported the 3ware CLI to all their cards. The LSI CLI isn't good with our monitoring automation. @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Hi Eric, thanks for the detailed response. That is exactly what I was looking for. Sorry, I was late in replying but I have spent the last couple of days bringing another upgraded cruncher back online. So would you say that the funding for the 300TB array is at the top of your wish list? Or is additional funds for the sysadmin and post-doc more important? And to put a response to Chris's question in another post. Why haven't we developed a new wish list for the GPUUG group. The posts and traffic on that site has dropped off to nil in the past year. Is there any mechanism in the SETI donor submission form to earmark specifically donated funds toward the drive array like we could do with the GPUUG donations? Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Michael Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4608 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18 |
I gave a little :) |
rcollect Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 6,986,705 RAC: 0 |
I plan to in the very near future, as a long term member active since 1999. Ramon Noches, Colonel, United States Air Force (Retired) Team: USA |
Dr.Diesel Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 41 Credit: 123,695,755 RAC: 139 |
Your first post in 18 years. Well done Sir, and thank you! Me too, as of a few days ago, here to stay now. |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
+2 ... |
NorthCup Send message Joined: 6 Jun 99 Posts: 108 Credit: 50,093,984 RAC: 5 |
Hello Mr. Korpela The situation for the participants is unacceptable. Mr. Kopella; they call for donations and calculation time. That's okay - that's what we're here for and many of us have been here for many years, donating time and money. The circumstances to do the work for Seti are bad. We pay a significant amount of energy costs to Seti each year. We do this without ranting and volunteering for the research and for Seti. We do not get anything for it. That's fine, too. But what we can expect is good/the best software. The clients for the seti-home calculation are inefficient! That is unacceptable. Please do your homework and provide your participants with efficient software for the different hardware. Above all, the Grafkkarten expect alternative clients significantly (x5!) More efficient than the software from your house. Thus, the output for Seti @ Home could be significantly increased in the future. Thanks and have a nice Christmas time Klaus Schulz P.S. I am from Germany and have had the text translated - sorry for the bad English |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34347 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
It doesn`t really matter where the software (applications) come from. There are high optimized apps available, just open a thread at number crunching and ask. Du kannst auch in deutsch schreiben, ich werde versuchen zu helfen. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30922 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
You gave $xxx.xx to SETI@home Your confirmation number is 302845 |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Here's a idea if you don't wish to give your own cash then why don't you stop Seti on the GPU's for a week and mine BCC or BTG or ZEC in just 1-2 weeks you will earn approx. $40+ your 3 1050's are good enough for it trust me ZEC is currently 350+ dollars BTG is current 300+ dollars BCC is currently 1500+ dollars Bitcoin $10,900+ wahoo go bitcoin go make me rich !! oh that's right I am now hehehhehehe yeh I know I was going to give it seti but , but ,but ....Then it became worth way to much to Donate it all |
Achim Reinhardt Send message Joined: 21 Dec 01 Posts: 2 Credit: 3,026,691 RAC: 8 |
Warum bekommt mein Rechner keine Aufgaben mehr? Ich Spende den Strom für die CPU und die GPU :-) |
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