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## Mathematics Endowment Fund
The [Mathematics Endowment Fund](https://uwaterloo.ca/math-endowment-fund/) has provided funding for a variety of projects, events, and hardware:
- A new disk shelf (24 disks x 2TB) for the NetApp filers donated by CSCF and MFCF, to be used to improve home directories
- Ginkgo, a server to improve CSC web hosting services
- Drives for Potassium-Benzoate, the server that runs [mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca](http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/)
- Potassium-Benzoate, the server that runs [mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca](http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/)
- High-Fructose Corn Syrup, a server used for high performance computing
- Sodium-Benzoate, the server that previously ran [mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca](http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/)
- A gigabit switch for the MathSoc offices (including ours)
- Academic talks
- Linux CDs for first-year students
- Caffeine, our primary server
- Various books for the CSC library
The Computer Science club graciously thanks the Mathematics Endowment Fund for their financial support.
## MathSoc Capital Improvements Fund
The [MathSoc Capital Improvements Fund](https://mathsoc.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/uploads/Mathsoc_Policies.pdf#page=54) has provided funding of new office hardware:
- Strombola and Bit-Shifter hardware upgrade (new motherboard, CPU and RAM)
- 2x 8-port 10Gbps SFP+ network cards for the Math Student Orgs routers/switches
- Natural-Flavours hardware upgrade (new motherboard, CPU and RAM)
## Student Life Endowment Fund
The [Student Life Endowment Fund](https://wusa.ca/about/your-money/funding/) has provided funding of new hardware:
- Biloba, a server to improve CSC web hosting services