Scott Wilkins

Scott Wilkins

HPC Cluster and SAN Operations Phone: +1 828.271.4907 Email: slwilki2@ncsu.edu

Biography

Mr. Scott Wilkins joined NCICS in January 2012 and serves as the NCICS High Performance Computing and Storage Manager. He is responsible for installation and maintenance of all information technology infrastructure associated with NCICS operations, including the compute cluster, the disk storage operations, and software.

Mr. Wilkins holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Phoenix. He has supported IT customers on both mainframe and client/server systems for over 30 years, first while serving in the United States Air Force (USAF) and later as a civilian contractor for both the USAF and the NCEI. Most recently, Mr. Wilkins has worked as a systems and SAN administrator responsible for providing hundreds of terabytes of data to dozens of users.

Publications

2018

Knapp, K. and  S. Wilkins, 2018: Gridded Satellite (GridSat) GOES and CONUS data. Earth System Science Data, 10, 1417-1425. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1417-2018

2017

Ansari, S., S. Del Greco, E. Kearns, O. Brown, S. Wilkins, M. Ramamurthy, J. Weber, R. May, J. Sundwall, J. Layton, A. Gold, A. Pasch, and V. Lakshmanan, 2017: Unlocking the Potential of NEXRAD Data through NOAA’s Big Data Partnership. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99, 189-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0021.1