The Museum has three main computing facilities which are available to the Department's researchers:

• Two Museum-wide Intel clusters
  
  • Enyo is a pathfinder for the next generation of the Museum's parallel computing facilities. It is a 128 core cluster with 32 compute nodes, each of which has two dual-core 3 GHz Intel Xeon 5160 CPUs, 16 Gb RAM, and an Infiniband interconnect.
  • Demeter is a 256 core cluster composed of 128 nodes each having dual 2.8GHz Intel Xeon processors and 4 Gb RAM, connected via a fibre-based Myrinet network.
• A Sun astrophysics cluster
  
  • Generously donated by Sun Microsystems, this system is composed of three, 12-processor SunFire v1280 servers, each with 96GB of RAM, and one SunFire v880z server, with 16GB of RAM. The systems are connected with a fibre-based Myrinet network.
• Five GRAPE boards
  
  • Gravity pipeline, or GRAPE, boards designed by Junichiro Makino (U. Tokyo) accelerate the solution of gravitational interactions by moving the most computationally expensive parts of these problems from software to hardware.