Linux Reconstructing Tree of Life?

vaderhelmet writes "Wired has a cool story about how the American Museum of Natural History, funded by the National Science Foundation is using Linux to "construct a pattern of relationships that biologists believe links all of Earth's present and past species -- from the smallest microbe to the largest vertebrate that existed during Earth's 4 billion-year history." They're using their very own homemade supercomputer which ranks in at 107 on the Top 500 supercomputers list. Quote from article: "Linux makes it so easy to create a supercomputer.""

Comments

Re:Religion

[Anonymous Coward]

Unlikely, not impossible. It is however mathematically impossible for a being to exist, has existed *forever*, and can do whatever he wants. The existence of god used to explain a whole lot of stuff, now it makes more questions than it solves, aka, it would take ALOT to explain it, and most of the stuff it explained has been explained by science. In 2000 more years, I doubt many people(maybe .0003%) will believe in creationism.

Re:Religion

[rusty0101]

He proposed it as a way of suggesting that it was the wrong way to do physics. He may have been wrong as well, but his intentions were not honorable.

-Rusty