Wildebeest is a 132-processor Beowulf cluster, a joint project between Lehman College, City College, and CAISS, supporting primarily the research activities of Professors Katherine St. John (Lehman College), Sean Cleary (CCNY), and Gilbert Baumslag (CCNY). The research projects include evolutionary tree reconstruction in computational biology, genetic algorithms in combinatorial group theory, computer experiments on parafree groups, and modelling turbulent fluid flows arising in the early stages of combustion, and questions and simulations in computer networking. We have been working with George Havas of the University of Queensland on discerning whether certain presentations define the trivial group. We plan on making GAP, MAGNUS, AXIOM and a number of stand-alone packages of Havas available on Wildebeest.