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Linux Reconstructing Tree of Life?

Posted by michael on from the penguins-at-top-of-food-chain dept.

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.""

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  1. It works! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny
    I just found out that Politicians, Hillary Rosen, and Ashton Kutcher are all related to bottom feeding, brainless proto-slime!

    Hurrah for technology!

  2. In unrelated news... by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Linux makes it so easy to create a supercomputer."" In an unrelated happening,1000 Slashdot readers were found dead today in their homes, having choked on their ego after reading a certain article...

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  3. Tree of Life? by elmegil · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here I thought it would be about uses of Linux for Cabbalism!

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  4. Re:Religion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  5. Re:Religion by rusty0101 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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

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