Scott L. Hamilton

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About Scott L. Hamilton
Scott is the proud father of five (Michaela, Allysa, Elijah, Noah and Obadiah. He has been married to Angela for over 20 happy years. He and Angela are licensed ministers.
Scott has several years experience in software and hardware engineering and has a desire to share knowledge with others. Scott frequently partners with research scientists in various fields in an attempt to assist them with software design for simulations, and demonstrations. You can review progress on Scott's recent projects by viewing the contents of his home page at https://sites.google.com/site/scottlhamiltonresearcher/
His previous job placed him as the lead for High Performance Computing Research at the Missouri University of Science and Technology where he supported the High Performance Computing Center. He was also the lead on Linux Support issues including the distribution of Software to RedHat, Centos, and Ubuntu systems on campus.
He is currently starting a new position as Solutions Architect and Solutions Manager for Bull, An Atos Company. He will be custom designing hardware and software solutions for computational sciences, data sciences, and scientific simulation and modeling.
Scott has several years experience in software and hardware engineering and has a desire to share knowledge with others. Scott frequently partners with research scientists in various fields in an attempt to assist them with software design for simulations, and demonstrations. You can review progress on Scott's recent projects by viewing the contents of his home page at https://sites.google.com/site/scottlhamiltonresearcher/
His previous job placed him as the lead for High Performance Computing Research at the Missouri University of Science and Technology where he supported the High Performance Computing Center. He was also the lead on Linux Support issues including the distribution of Software to RedHat, Centos, and Ubuntu systems on campus.
He is currently starting a new position as Solutions Architect and Solutions Manager for Bull, An Atos Company. He will be custom designing hardware and software solutions for computational sciences, data sciences, and scientific simulation and modeling.
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Blog postDear Readers,
I have made a tough decision to move my blog from blogger to WordPress. In the recent events of censorship on platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, I was fearful of being censored on my own blog and website if I continued to use a platform managed by Google. Google is one of the offending companies in the onslaught of web censorship and for the safety of my content I have made the decision to make a move. In the coming weeks you will see new conten3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postI saw something today that I thought I would never see in my lifetime. A doctor in Madagascar developed a homeopathic remedy for COVID-19 which apparently is being used by the nation and has allowed them to reopen and go back to life as normal. However, if you try to search for pricing or availability of this drink Covid-organics on Google in the shopping category you get blocked.
It even blocked my ability to screen shot the block, thus the reason for the low quality photo. I wante9 months ago Read more -
Blog postIn the light of the “new normal” brought about with the COVID-19 virus, there are some technically possible, but ethically questionable ideas on how to track and prevent the virus. I am talking about the utilization of the blue tooth chip in your cell phone to track other people, or rather other cell phones that you have come within a given radius.
The technology has existed for a long time and many of us use it daily. Bluetooth is a short-distance, high-frequency radio tra9 months ago Read more -
Blog postOne of the most interesting innovations in robotics in the last year was the development of a sonar system for robots that utilized a simple system of a single speaker and two microphones to mimic the sonar of bats. These “Robats” were developed at Tel Aviv University in Israel early last year.
You might ask what the advantage is of using sonar for robotics when we already have excellent computer vision techniques and LiDaR. There are two main factors to take into consideration. The fi9 months ago Read more -
Blog postYou might think that computers and the COVID-19 virus have very little to do with one another. However, there are several things that have happened in the computing industry as a result of COVID-19. The first was the massive increase in working from home, which caused an unexpected spike in the amount of video streaming traffic on the internet. The second was in the supercomputing industry.
The largest supercomputers in the world, usually used by government agencies for defense and ene9 months ago Read more -
Blog postBy Scott Hamilton
Last week I wrote about the impact of COVID-19 on Internet service providers. I had promised an article this week regarding the impact on local churches and their need for live streaming their services. Many of your churches may already be using Facebook live to keep in touch. That seems to be the easiest way for people to gain access to video content. It is also quite simple for the churches to use. However, if you want a more professional look for your onlin10 months ago Read more -
Blog postBy Scott Hamilton
I would like to open by stating that this week’s article is a lot more opinion and observation than pure facts about the impacts of Covid-19 on the internet. There have been clear impacts to network infrastructure as a result of the social distancing and working from home orders across the country, but there are just not enough facts listed to put a real number on the impact.
Over the past week there have been numerous articles published around the world questi10 months ago Read more -
Blog postThe final reason HPc workloads are slow tui migrate to the could had to do with storage. HPC generates and processes very large quantities of data. Most have directed capacities well above 1 petabyte. There are three main factors impacting HPC and cloud storage. First is that HPC applications expect a POSIX file system which is usually implemented on block devices where file system objects point to links blocks of information that can be accessed both sequent10 months ago Read more
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Blog postIn honor of the never-ending number pi, we have one of a few international holiday celebrations. Pi Day was first celebrated on March 14, 1988, which also happens to coincide with Einstein’s birthday, March 14, 1879. Pi Day was first celebrated as a part of an Exploratorium staff retreat in Monterey, Calif. In March 2009, Pi Day became an official U.S. national holiday.
As part of my recognition of Pi day, I would like to explore the history of the number, who first discovered it, how10 months ago Read more -
Blog postThe second reason HPC workloads are slow to migrate too the cloud is related to cloud networks. A majority of cloud service providers designed the network infrastructure for individual compute resources common in IT services data centers. /for example your corporate file servers do not need a high speed network between them as long as they each have good connectivity to the client systems. It is the same for web servers, database servers, and most other it workloads.
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Blog postCompanies are making rapid migrations to cloud based resources across industry, except for a lag in one area, high performance computing. There are a few reasons for this lag. First, most companies utilize their HPC systems near 90 percent making for much less cost savings in migration. Heavily utilized system are usually less expensive to run on your own data center than pay the premium for utilizing the cloud. The except10 months ago Read more
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Blog postEncryption has existed longer than computers have been around. In short encryption is a secure method of communication between two parties. They both must know some “secret” that allows them to share messages no one else can read. The simplest form of encryption is letter substitution, for example, shifting letters. A becomes c and z becomes b, each letter becomes three letters ahead, starting over at a when you reach z. The secret in this case would be the number three. The10 months ago Read more
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Blog postGNOME 3.36: "Gresik" was officially released today after six months of development effort. The part that excites me the most is the massive performance improvements included in this release. In the past I have felt that GNOME was a resource drain on overall system performance and can not wait to test out. I'll be posting results of the tests in the next few days. For more details please visit http://www.gnome.org/news10 months ago Read more
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Blog postYou may not realize just how many electromagnetic signals pass through your body every day. It’s not really known if there are health effects from these signals or not, but I find it very interesting to see how much they have increased in the last decade. Just looking at cellular towers, in 2010 there were 250,000 and today there are 350,000 towers in the U.S., and this number will increase to over one million in the coming few years to support 5g technology.
So, what do these signals10 months ago Read more -
Blog postKatherine Johnson was instrumental in make the lunar landing mission a success through her work with NASA as a mathematician. She died on Feb. 24, 2020, at the age of 101. It is very fitting to me that we honor her, not only because of the loss of a great mathematician, but also for her contributions to society in general. As Black History month came to a close over the weekend, it was another reminder of her contributions and those of others.
Johnson was born in White Sulphur Springs, W.V11 months ago Read more -
Blog postCellular network providers have been touting their new technology for over a year now, including promoting the fact that they are first to provide 5G service in the country. The question is, how much of what is being said about 5G is accurate and how much of it is marketing hype? I plan to address the facts of 5G in this week’s article and let the reader decide.
First of all there are three different types of 5G being built in the U.S., including low-band, mid-band, and hig11 months ago Read more -
Blog postWikimedia by user Bukvoed, used under Creative Commons CC0 License. The type of radar used by NORAD to track Santa rotates steadily, sweeping the sky with a narrow beam searching for aircraft.Every year NORAD brings up their official Santa tracking radar. You can track Santa’s location for yourself at www.noradsanta.org. In light of the Christmas season, I wanted to share a few facts about Santa’s travels around the globe and the technology behind NORAD. San11 months ago Read more
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Blog postA couple of times over the last month I have been asked about airbags. Questions have usually been along the lines of, “I hit a deer at 65 miles per hour and my airbag didn’t deploy, but I hit a curb at 15 mph and my airbags deployed. Why?” It has everything to do with how the airbag sensors work. This week’s article explains the sensor, what it does and why sometimes it sets off the airbags with low impact and not with high impact accidents.The first thing you need to know is that airbag sensor11 months ago Read more
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Blog postThis year has been an exciting year in the supercomputing industry as there have been many new developments. Two weeks after the world’s largest conference in the industry, SC19, all the announcements have made it to the internet and opinions have been shared, which makes it the perfect time to highlight the developments of the year.In my opinion, the top two developments in supercomputing have been two new players in the processor market finally taking a significant share in the industry. The p11 months ago Read more
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Blog postIn last week’s article I wrote about using hints from social media to track meteors. In that article there was a mention of a reward for finding parts of the meteor that flew over Missouri. I thought maybe someone wanted to hunt for it and did not know where to start, so here are some tips to meteorite hunting. First I want to clear up the difference between a meteor and a meteorite. It is a meteor when it is flying overhead and on fire from entering the atmosphere. It becomes a meteorite11 months ago Read more
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Blog postLast week I reviewed three social networks and wanted to mention a fourth. You might ask, what does this have to do with meteors? It might seem strange at first, but actually there is a lot that link the two together. We will get into that after I talk about Reddit.Reddit is the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet;” it was formed in 2005. Registered users (redditors) submit content in a variety of subjects: news, science, music, books, video games, technology, etc. Redditors get to vote11 months ago Read more
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Blog postI always find it interesting to review technology developments at the end of a decade. This week I plan on not only listing, but talking a little bit about the top new technological developments in the last decade. The years between 2010 and 2020 brought about some of the most amazing technology in history.
For the first time in history we have a generation of people that never knew life without a computer or the internet. Everyone under the age of thirty has probably had access11 months ago Read more -
Blog postEvery time you log into Facebook or search for something on Google, you access servers. Servers are remote computer systems that “serve” information of services to other computer systems. Years ago these servers used completely different technology than the computer on your desk. However, like all things, technology has changed.
Servers used to be room-sized computers running specialized processors for rapid data access. These mainframes used a parallel memory access system and contai11 months ago Read more -
Blog postHave you ever wondered how computers store, print, and display images? Well that’s the topic for this week’s article. Computers are actually not all that smart when it comes to storing image information. They really only store numbers, as a sequence of ones and zeros. So how do they keep a photo?
A photo, as far as a computer is concerned, is a grid of numbers that represent the colors in the image. Each spot on the grid holds four numbers between 0 and 256, one for each of11 months ago Read more -
Blog postAround this time last year I ran a column talking about the federal government regulations on drones. Tracking of online sales of technology indicates that this year was another big year for drone sales. I am guessing that some readers likely either received or bought a drone for Christmas so I wanted to mention the new regulations on operating a drone.
First, there is a requirement to register your drone with the Federal Aeronautics Administration (FAA). If the drone weighs between 0.11 months ago Read more
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Books By Scott L. Hamilton
An Introduction to Parallel Programming
Jul 23, 2014
$24.99
An introduction to parallel programming with openmpi using C. It is written so that someone with even a basic understanding of programming can begin to write mpi based parallel programs.
Healing A Nation
Jul 22, 2014
$2.99
A call to Biblical repentance which results in healing for the nation based on II Chronicles 7:14 If ever there was a time in our nation’s history where there was a need of a healing touch from the loving Father God that time is now. Our nation sits on the brink of death. If ever our nation needed a healing touch from God, it is now.
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