Donations Wanted

The NTP Public Services Project relies on contributions from OurDonors to support our operations. Please see DonatingToTheProject for more information about making a donation to support the Project.

Hardware Contributions (components and complete systems)

• SCSI Disk Drives
  • Needed: 18G or larger SCSI-2 disk drives for an HP NetServer LPr (HP 18.2GB B 80-8C02 or equivalent)
  • Function: Replacement for a failing disk drive and increased storage in our mail server
  • Location: ISC

• ATA Disk Drives
  • Needed: 40G Maxtor NNN, or 2x (some useful size) of parallel ATA drive
  • Function: Replacement for a dead disk drive
  • Location: ISC

• Remote Power Control
  • Needed: Remote power controllers - rackmount: horizontal or vertical
  • Function: For remotely rebooting our systems
  • Location: ISC
  • Suggested Items:
    • http://apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP7900
    • http://apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP7931
    • http://apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP9225
    • http://www.baytechdcd.com/products/dsf-rpcseries.shtml
    • http://www.baytechdcd.com/products/rpcseries.shtml

• Embedded System
  • Needed: 2 Small embedded diskless systems each with 2 NICs, 256MB Compact Flashes, Power Supplies, and cases
  • Use: Appliance application
  • Suggested Items:
    • http://www.soekris.com/net4501.htm
    • http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm
  • Location: ISC

• NAS/NFS server
  • Function: shared sources, build trees, home directories
  • Location: ISC
  • Suggested Items:
    • Network Appliance FAS270
  • Desired Configuration:
    • Mounting Style: 19" Rackmount only
    • Storage: at least 250 GB, prefer 500GB+
    • Licenses: Full software licenses
    • Support: Full support contract

• Refclocks
  • Needed: Refclocks
  • Function: Development and maintenance of refclock drivers.
  • Location: ISC or individual developers

• IBM eServer p5, AIX
  • Function: Build/test farm
  • Location: ISC
  • Desired Configuration:
    • Mounting Style: 19" Rackmount only
    • Processor: IBM Power 5
    • RAM: 512MB (minimum), 1GB+ (preferred)
    • Disk: Two (or more) 40GB (or larger) server-grade hot-plug disks
      • Preferably including server-grade hardware RAID controller

• IBM eServer p5, Linux
  • Function: Build/test farm
  • Location: ISC
  • Desired Configuration:
    • Mounting Style: 19" Rackmount only
    • Processor: IBM Power 5
    • RAM: 512MB (minimum), 1GB+ (preferred)
    • Disk: Two (or more) 40GB (or larger) server-grade hot-plug disks
      • Preferably including server-grade hardware RAID controller

• Apple Xserve, MacOS X
  • Function: Build/test farm
  • Location: ISC
  • Desired Configuration:
    • Mounting Style: 19" Rackmount only
    • Processor: PowerPC G4 (minimum) or G5 (preferred)
    • RAM: 512MB (minimum), 1GB+ (preferred)
    • Disk: Two (or more) 40GB (or larger) server-grade hot-plug disks
      • Preferably including server-grade hardware RAID controller

Financial Contributions

Here is a partial list of what we would spend money on:

• Staff
• Sending people to NTP-related meetings (IETF, etc.)
• Software development
• Project maintenance and development
• Equipment and facilities support

Please see DonatingToTheProject for information about financial contributions to support the Project.