Avian tree of life required 400 years of CPU time (sciencemag.org)

Here are a couple of non-technical summaries:

http://www.aaas.org/news/new-genome-sequences-reveal-bird-tr...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-11/an-unprecedented-fl...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141211-bird-...