Until recently, computationally intensive calculations in many scientific disciplines have been limited to institutions which have access to supercomputing centers. Today, the computing power of PC processors permits the assembly of inexpensive PC clusters that nearly approach the power of supercomputers. Moreover, the combination of inexpensive network cards and Open Source software provides an easy linking of standard computer equipment to enlarge such clusters. Universities and other institutions have taken this opportunity and built their own mini-supercomputers on site. Computing power is a particular issue for the climate modeling and impacts community. The purpose of this article is to make available a Linux cluster version of the Community Climate System Model developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR; http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/csm).