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Isaac asks UK to pay for police

Bills: Isaac says UK can pay, Athletics say ticket
price increase not intended to cover police overtime

By Darlush Shafa
SiAf’F WRITER

The University of Ken-
tucky may soon be paying for
police at university basket-
ball and football events.

Mayor Teresa Isaac re-
cently stated that a bill
would be sent to charge the
university for the use of off-
duty police officers who pro-
vide security and traffic con-
trol at major UK athletic
events.

Currently the university

does not pay for the use of
police officers that staff
these events. In a recent let-
ter to UK President Lee
Todd. Isaac said that the city
would "no longer be able to
provide no-cost police ser-
vices."

During the 2001 football
and 2002 basketball seasons,
the overtime costs to the Ur-
ban County Division of P0-
lice totaled almost $176,000,
at an average overtime-
hourly rate of $29.17 per offi-
cer. This year, the estimated

overtime rate is $32.00 per
hour. Though the price has
gone up, the city will only
charge a total of approxi
mately $127,000. The bill in-
cludes a charge of $88,882 for
football games and $38,073
for basketball games.

Director of Public Rela-
tions Mary Margaret Colliv-
er stated the UK administra-
tion's official position.

"We understand the city
is having budget issues as
well as the university," Col-
liver said. "We are in the
process of trying to work
with the city as well as other
law enforcement agencies in
order to develop a plan for se-
curity and traffic control."

Isaac said she feels that
with the city undergoing
budget deficits, UK should
shoulder some of the respon-
sibility for the financial bur-
den.

UK recently raised ticket
prices for basketball and
football games by $5 and $7
respectively, although ticket
prices for some sections at
Commonwealth Stadium will
remain unchanged.

"UK is able to pay for the
police department." Isaac
said.

Isaac also says Lexing-
ton citizens are in favor of
UK taking responsibility for

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‘fhe statue of former UK president James Kennedy Patterson was relocated by construction crews on Tuesday as part of the Main
building renovation. Patterson was moved to the area between Whitehall Classroom Building and the office tower that bears his
name. Known as the "Grand Old Man" of the university. Patterson was UII president from 1869-1910. ffe died In 1922.

ONEYEARLATER

Controversy, contracts
and fundraising highlights
Barnhart's first year

By Derek Poore
SUMNER EDITOR lfl CHIEF

One year, four new head coaches,
and a K-fund later, Mitch Barnhart is
thrilled with the interaction and lead—

Ieliisihip he's had and worked with at

However. he believes facilities and
programs can still improve in year
two.

"I’ve really enjoyed the relation-
ship with the student athletes and our
coaches," Barnhart said. "I‘ve enjoyed
the opportunity to work with Dr. Todd.

"Our facilities are good. .but I
wouldn‘t say that they were all we want them to be at this
point."

During his first year at UK, Barnhart had many tasks
to master, but said the transition to Lexington was the
most difficult.

"It’s difficult when you come in and you’re trying to at-
tack so many fronts. to change the direction of your pro-
gram," Barnhart said. "We came in under incredible
scrutiny.

"Reshaping our staff and administration that was

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ONEYEARLATER

Barnhart survives
first year at school

Mitch Barnhart came to UK one
year ago as the transfer student that no
one wanted to play with in elementary
school.
Some of the kids called him names,
like “outsider,” because he was the first
UK athletic director since 1934 not to »
have ties to UK. Some of the kids threw “’
rocks at him for the way the hiring of ‘
new football coach Rich Brooks went. JG"
Even though Barnhart should have told
UK President Todd about the issues at my“);
Oregon some 20-odd years ago, Brooks' M” E
character showed to be clean, with him
serving on the NCAA infractions committee. Still after all
that Barnhart has gone through his first year, he has per-
severed and has changed the face of UK athletics.
PROGRAMS 101: A-
Barnhart gets an A‘ for actually caring about sports
other than men's basketball and football. He actually went
to a tennis match. No joke, I saw him at one.

 

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Supercomputing project sets new record

Performance and invention: Supercomputer cost
efficient, uses technology created by UK research

By Derek Peore
SUMMER EDl‘fOfI IfI CIfIEt’

Room 672 in Anderson
Hall is not much bigger than
a few closets, giving the feel
of a standard 25-student high
school classroom. But this
humble room houses the
world's cheapest terraflop su-
percomputer.

On Wednesday. July 16,
electrical and computer egi-
neering students, faculty and
even some high school stu-
dents volunteered their time
and worked in assembly-line
fashion to construct the Ken-
tucky ASYmmetric Zero, or
KASYO.

Hank Dietz and his stu-
dents have squeezed a clus-
ter supercomputer out of a
budget of less than $40,000 —

 

and that
includes
the pizza.

T h e
KASYO has
the power
to do
r o u g h l y
one tril-
lion float-
ing point
operations
per second — or one ter-
raflop.

Dietz, an electrical and
computer engineering pro-
fessor and the James F.
Hardymon chair, said the
whole project involved any-
one with a strong love of
computers.

"This is really a sort of
outreach," Dietz said, refer~
ring to the wide array of peo-

 

 

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ple working during last
week‘s all-day construction
marathon in exchange for
pizza slices, soda and the
unique opportunity of work
ing on such a project. "How
many people can say that
they helped build a super-
computer?"

Clustered supercomput-
ing is nothing new to UK. In
April 2000, Dietz and volun—
teers constructed KLAT2. the
Kentucky Linux Athlon Test-
bed. In comparison, KLAT2
had a speed of 180 GFLOPS.

KASYO is a record for fi-
nancially optimal supercom-
puting.

"We’re absolutely certain
it blows away any world
record," Dietz said. He also
said that KASYO will have
the performance of $100 per
GFLOP. whereas the KLAT2
carried a GFLOP of perfor-
mance for around every $640
spent. This sets a new record

for price and performance.

Dietz also pointed to a
cluster network built out of
70 Playstation 23 at the Uni-
versity of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign that doesn't get
the bang for the buck like
KASYO.

"The best they can quote
is 70 Playstation 2'5 with an
incredible $50.3000' Dietz
said. "Ours is $40,000 with
128 machines."

Dietz also said that the
PlayStation 2 cluster does not
have the same type of pro-
cessing environment that the
KASYO does.

"(The) problem with the
P82." Dietz said. “it's de-
signed for playing Doom and
Quake and. yes. it has amaz-
ing FLOP performance. but
it's all in the graphic proces-
sor. It‘s very good at doing
heavy math and displaying
them as pixels."

Dietz brought his Com-

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Electrical engineering graduate student Shashi Arcot. left. helps Bill
Dieter, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The entire method be-
yond KAOS‘s last two super-
computing creations has
been the advent of their own

pilers, Hardware Architec~
tures and Operating Systems
idea from Purdue University
where his students helped
develop the concept of "Com-
piler-oriented Architecture"
from 1986 to 1999.

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