VOLUME 47, ISSUE 15
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013
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SDSC Partners With Small Businesses UCSD’s Supercomputer Center will provide data management to local companies via the cloud.
Successful filmmakers and former Tritons behind Wong Fu Productions discuss their transition from La Jolla to L.A.
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Employees 3299 workers, who plan to strike at UC campuses on Nov. 20. UAW may join them in solidarity. UAW members claim that their annual pay, purportedly an average of $17,000, is not nearly enough to live on without taking a second or third job. Like AFSCME workers, UAW representatives believe that the UC
The UCSD San Diego Supercomputer Center created the Industry Partners Program last week, a collaboration between the center’s researchers and small businesses. The high-performance computers, or “supercomputers,” offered by the SDSC are used by several tech-based companies in the San Diego area. Built primarily for academic researchers, the SDSC rents out space on its large cluster computing systems to local businesses, which use the computing power for activities such as managing data and running simulations. According to the announcement, SDSC provides quarterly workshops, private meetings with researchers and an annual review of recent research projects to members of the Industrial Partners Program. The center charges member companies between $10,000 and $25,000 each year for these services. The pilot program held its first annual research review on June 12 of this year. The Supercomputer Center’s resources are used largely by manufacturers, who create intricate simulations to test designs for their products. For instance Hunter Industries, a manufacturer of water-efficient irrigation products, has used the SDSC’s computers to update its line of sprinklers; the high-performance computers allow the company to simulate the movement of water through the sprinklers, aiding in the creation of a prototype. Hunter Vice President of Marketing Gene Smith explained that his company would rely more on high-performance computers in the future. “HPC [high-performance computing] will certainly be a valuable tool for us going forward as we increase our reliance on CFD [computational fluid dynamics] simulation to reduce costs and time associated with prototyping and design,” Smith said in a UCSD News Center press release. The services SDSC currently offers to small and medium-sized businesses have been made possible by the advent of cloud computing, which allows the Supercomputer Center to offer computing power on demand over the Internet. Traditionally, high-performance computers have only been accessible to large corporations, mainly in the automotive and aerospace industries, which have the resources to buy and maintain their own supercomputer units. SDSC’s Director of Industry
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Miniature American flags adorn the lawn west of Library Walk this week in honor of Veteran’s Day and fallen soliders. A new veterans resource center opened last Thursday on the second floor of the Student Center.
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My friends tell me that ‘The LW’ is one of the best parts of our university. But if I’m here for one purpose, it’s to take a dump on everything you love. And that’s exactly why I am giving it the Triton Side-Eye.”
- Kevin Fuhrmann Triton Side-Eyeing LIFESTYLE, PAGE 9
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UC PRESIDENT NAPOLITANO PROPOSES TUITION FREEZE
Tuition for UC undergraduates may remain constant for the third consecutive year as the Board of Regents discusses alternatives.
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niversity of California undergraduate tuition may be frozen for the third consecutive year, according to a recent policy plan proposed by UC President Janet Napolitano. The plan was discussed at yesterday’s Board of Regents meeting in UCSF — if approved, it will keep the current undergraduate California resident tuition rate at $12,192 in annual systemwide fees. In her first meeting with the Board of Regents this year, the newly appointed UC president explained that she hopes the proposed policy will provide enough time for administration to create a more sustainable and stable tuition setting for all UC campuses. “We need to figure out, in the real world in which we live, how to bring clarity to, and reduce volatility in, the tuition-setting process,” Napolitano said in an address to the Board of Regents. “It’s time for the university to collabora-
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tively come up with a better way.” Napolitano mentioned the idea of “cohort tuition” — in which freshmen enter college with the expectation of a stable four-year tuition price — as a possibility for a new UC policy, although she also emphasized the need for the Regents to explore a variety of options. “We will also look at expanding our other revenue possibilities: grants, public-private partnerships, joint ventures, philanthropy,” Napolitano said. “These revenues must all be harnessed if we are to continue to be the world-class university we are, while being as low-cost as we can.” While speaking about reasons for past tuition hikes, Napolitano cited overall economic difficulty and decreases in state funding and described the current importance of increasing cost-efficiency within the UC Office of the President. In addition to campus-wide cost of opera-
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/--"!&/$,*#,+-*,.&$"% A union representing student workers throughout the UC system has authorized its members to go on strike following a unionwide vote that passed with 96 percent support. United Auto Workers Local 2865 includes 12,000 teaching assistants,
graduate student teachers and readers who now have the authority to strike in protest of alleged intimidation tactics used by the UC administration. The vote comes a week after the union’s no-strike clause expired in its contracts with the University of California. UAW has expressed support for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal