The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Parallel Computing Facility supports over 200 museum scientists, including undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows pursuing research that relies heavily on high-end capability computing in comparative biology, genomics, astrophysics, and anthropology.

Museum scientists are at the forefront of developing and utilizing cutting-edge approaches in computing paradigms to address problems of broad application in the sciences and other disciplines. For instance, researchers in the Museum’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology have developed algorithms and programs that are used by researchers around the world. While researchers in the Department of Astrophysics in collaboration with other scientists around the world perform high-resolution numerical simulation work that help bring life to the Hayden Planetarium Space Shows.

In addition to supporting the research of scientists at AMNH, high-end computing at the AMNH directly impacts the Museum’s public outreach activities in educational programming and exhibitions. The Museum’s public exhibitions attract over 4 million visitors annually on site, as well as being exhibited around the world.