Welcome to The Field Museum's HPCC The Field Museum has established research in evolutionary biology and systematics as a major strategic area. Many systematic projects involve data sets that are too large to be adequately analyzed even by the fastest desktop PCs normally available to researchers. Some phylogenetic analyses (e.g., likelihood bootstrapping) can run for weeks on the fastest desktop computers. This barrier has now been alleviated at the Field Museum Thanks to a National Science Foundation Grant (NSF DBI-9871374) and matching funds from the Museum, a high performance cluster computer system (HPCC), consisting of a Sun Enterprise Server (4 processors) and a Microway Linux cluster (six dual alpha processor compute nodes) was acquired and is now ready for use. The UNIX-based machines are available for use by all Field Museum research staff, postdocs, students, and visitors. Go to the web site for the High Performance Computer Cluster