Today's breakthrough was achieved using GPFS running on a cluster of 10 eight core systems and solid state storage, taking 43 minutes to perform this selection. The GPFS management rules engine provides the comprehensive capabilities to service any data management task.
GPFS's advanced algorithm makes possible the full use of all processor cores on all of these machines in all phases of the task (data read, sorting and rules evaluation). GPFS exploits the solid state storage appliances with only 6.8 terabytes of capacity for excellent random performance and high data transfer rates for containing the metadata storage. The appliances sustainably perform hundreds of millions of data input-output operations, while GPFS continuously identifies, selects and sorts the right set of files among the 10 billion on the system.
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35111.wss
Maqetta is an open source technology initiative at Dojo Foundation that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces for HTML5 (desktop and mobile). The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plugins or downloads.
http://maqetta.org/index.php?option=c...mp;view=article&id=2&Itemid=8
PaperScript is the plain old JavaScript that you are used to, with added support of mathematical operators (+ - * / %) for Point and Size objects. PaperScript code is automatically executed in its own scope that without polluting with the global scope still has access to all the global browser objects and functions, such as document or window.
http://paperjs.org/tutorials
Although you won't have to actually write the JavaScript and CSS required to create these example slideshows with effects (you can copy and paste the provided sample code), it’s still important to understand the techniques involved.
The slideshow examples all use the same techniques of using JavaScript to trigger transition effects to images by applying CSS stylesheets to the images and their container elements. These are the steps...
http://padilicious.com/code/slideshows/index.html
