• About Vinay Gupta

    Vinay Gupta is a consultant on disaster relief and risk management.

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    Supercomputer applications for the developing world.

    by  • November 4, 2007 • Hexayurt • 1 Comment

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=76007 Occam. Specifically, http://transterpreter.org Yes, the language it runs (Occam) is 20 years old. But the language was designed for programs running on dozens to thousands of nodes, and in the transterpreter implementation, there’s the possibility of doing this on heterogeneous hardware, where the fast nodes do things like splitting and merging the data set, [...]

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    I know it looked familiar….

    by  • November 2, 2007 • Personal • 0 Comments

    See, over a period of time, what happened is that these got bigger and bigger. Nobody ever figured out how to get them to do the stairs because the base is too broad, so you just buy one per level and sweep the stairs yourself, down onto the lower landing for the downstairs one to [...]

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    World Toilet Organization conference in India

    by  • October 31, 2007 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7070494.stm A World Toilet Summit has opened in the Indian capital, Delhi, with more than 40 countries taking part. The four-day meeting will examine solutions and technologies that can be used to provide a basic need for nearly half the world’s population. According to estimates, 2.6bn people around the world lack access to a hygienic [...]

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    Barnett on Acquisitions

    by  • October 31, 2007 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment

    http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2007/10/welcome_to_my_career.html To which I said: To really understand this, we need to run a war game. Two groups, one with the standard kit, the other with 25% of the budget spent on total acquisition of that kit, one year, and the ability to buy or contract for anything they can get delivered. I don’t think [...]

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    Buckminster Fuller Challenge Second Draft – ow my aching brain

    by  • October 29, 2007 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments

    Again, please send me all of your thoughts and feedback. We’ve got time to tweak yet! ==================== Challenge Response: The Hexayurt (http://hexayurt.com) is a practical global housing solution that has found champions in groups as diverse as the Amritanandamayi Ashram, the American Red Cross and the US Department of Defense. A $200 family home that [...]

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    Passive House energy efficiency standard

    by  • October 29, 2007 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house Passivhaus in German) refers to the rigorous, voluntary, Passivhaus standard for energy use in buildings. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating.[1] A similar standard, MINERGIE-P®, is used in Switzerland [2]. Despite the name, the standard is not confined only to houses. Several office buildings, schools, kindergartens and [...]

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