“The Linux operating system has helped scientists in Cambridge
to decode the 34 million chemical ‘letters’ that constitute a human
chomosome.”
“Scientists at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge are expected to
announce any day that chromosome 22, an complete section of human
DNA, has been successfully mapped.”
“Two hundred and fifty Alpha processor-based Linux systems
contributed to the huge number-crunching effort required to
interpret the chemical make-up of a chromosome. The centre combined
all the Linux machines into one giant ‘virtual computer’ in order
to maximise their computational power.”