Penn State's newly constructed parallel computing cluster, named LION-X, has been nominated for inclusion in the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The LION-X cluster is a powerful, high performance parallel computing instrument that allows Penn State faculty and other researchers in science and engineering to run computer simulation programs in a highly cost-effective manner. Atmospheric models used by the Department of Meteorology are among the first applications operated by LION-X, effectively demonstrating the system's capability to handle complex tasks.