SETI@home Budget - Fall 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	Subtotal	Total
SETI@home		124,200
Offline Data Analysis & RFI Rejection	37,000
SETI@home Upgrades and Bug Fixes	26,000
Candidate Identification & Data Analysis Software (NTPCKR)	55,000
Followup Observations of Best Candidates	6,200
Astropulse ¹		83,600
Client application/data analysis software development	26,000
Equipment: Database and server hardware	25,600
Candidate identification and followup observations	32,000
Operations		268,200
Internet connection and bandwidth charges	65,700
Database administration and support	53,400
Systems administration and support	69,100
Server maintainence and preformance monitoring	23,000
Web site development	27,700
Upgrade to failure tolerant server configuration	29,300
	Total	476,000

¹ More information about Astropulse can be found here.