LNCC

What LNCC does

LNCC (Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica) is Brazil's federal national laboratory for scientific computing, established in 1980 and headquartered in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. It operates as an autarquia federal under Brazil's Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (MCTI), providing country-level infrastructure for computational research rather than commercial products. Its flagship asset is the Santos Dumont supercomputer, characterized in the input as one of South America's most powerful high-performance computing facilities and used by Brazilian researchers for computational modeling across multiple scientific domains.

The institution runs an integrated stack of research, education, and knowledge-management activities. It hosts the Master's and Doctoral Postgraduate Program in Computational Modeling (with 399+ theses and dissertations recorded in its repositories), the LABINFO bioinformatics laboratory (a wholly owned research subsidiary), and the Incubadora de Base Tecnológica do LNCC technology business incubator, which has graduated technology-based companies to market. Institutional knowledge is managed through two DSpace-based platforms — the SERRA institutional repository and the TEDE theses-and-dissertations repository — and a strategic partnership with IBICT is in place to formalize digital preservation policy and infrastructure.

LNCC's business model is non-commercial. The laboratory is fully funded by federal budget allocations and research grants from agencies such as CNPq and FAPERJ; it does not charge users for access to its HPC, graduate, or research services. It serves two primary segments — the Brazilian scientific research community (scientists, faculty, graduate students requiring HPC and computational modeling) and government/public-sector institutions that use LNCC's infrastructure for technical and policy work — and operates within a South American geographic scope.

Name

LNCC

Legal name

Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica

Website

https://lncc.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

LNCC is a Brazilian federal research laboratory under MCTI that operates the Santos Dumont supercomputer, a graduate program in Computational Modeling, a bioinformatics lab (LABINFO), and a technology incubator, serving the Brazilian scientific research community and public sector via public funding.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Petrópolis

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

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GTM type

B2B

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Services

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Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

LNCC is Brazil's National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, operating the Santos Dumont supercomputer to provide high-performance computing infrastructure for Brazilian researchers. It offers graduate education (Master's and Doctorate in Computational Modeling), conducts research in computational modeling and bioinformatics, runs a technology business incubator, and maintains institutional digital repositories.

Product overview

LNCC is a Brazilian national research laboratory under MCTI that operates as a research and higher education institution rather than a commercial product company. Its offerings center on high-performance computing infrastructure (Supercomputador Santos Dumont), academic graduate programs (Master's/Doctoral in Computational Modeling), technology business incubation, and institutional digital repositories (TEDE and SERRA built on DSpace). The laboratory provides computational resources and services primarily for the Brazilian scientific research community, not commercial software products.

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Functional benefit

Brands

• Supercomputador Santos Dumont: High-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure operated by LNCC for Brazilian researchers.
• LABINFO - Laboratório de Bioinformática
• Programa de Pós-Graduação em Modelagem Computacional
• Incubadora de Base Tecnológica do LNCC

Products and services

• Supercomputador Santos Dumont High-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure providing supercomputing resources for Brazilian researchers, supporting computational modeling and scientific simulations across multiple disciplines including applied mathematics, bioinformatics, and engineering sciences.
• Programa de Pós-Graduação em Modelagem Computacional Master's and doctoral graduate program in Computational Modeling, offering academic degrees and conducting research in applied mathematics, computer science, and scientific computing for graduate students and researchers.
• Incubadora de Base Tecnológica do LNCC Technology business incubator that supports the creation and development of technology-based companies through infrastructure, mentorship, and technology transfer support, graduating startups to market.
• SERRA - Repositório Institucional Institutional repository built on DSpace for organizing, storing, managing, preserving, and disseminating the scientific and technical production of LNCC.
• TEDE - Teses e Dissertações Digital repository platform for theses and dissertations, built on DSpace, providing access to academic publications from the Computational Modeling graduate program.
• Laboratório de Bioinformática (LABINFO) Bioinformatics laboratory conducting research in computational biology and bioinformatics, supporting scientific research in life sciences using computational methods.

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• IBICT (Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership focused on digital preservation actions. The main objective is to establish structured cooperation for the preservation of LNCC's institutional and scientific memory, with the final product being the implementation of a digital preservation policy and infrastructure.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

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Direct peers

• CBPF (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas): Brazilian Center for Physics Research, also a federal research unit under MCTI. Comparable as a peer Brazilian national laboratory conducting fundamental research with graduate programs and shared ministry oversight.
• INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais): Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, also under MCTI, conducting scientific research with significant computational infrastructure and graduate programs. Comparable federal lab structure and mission.
• CENAPAD (Centro Nacional de Processamento de Alto Desempenho): Brazil's national HPC system coordinator providing high-performance computing access to academic researchers. Directly comparable to LNCC's Santos Dumont offering, serving the same Brazilian research community.

Broad incumbents

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory: US Department of Energy national laboratory operating the Frontier supercomputer. Comparable as a flagship national scientific computing lab with HPC focus, though at much larger scale and broader mission.
• Argonne National Laboratory: US Department of Energy lab operating the Aurora supercomputer. Comparable national lab with HPC and computational modeling focus, serving government and academic research customers.
• NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research): US federally funded research and development center providing HPC resources for atmospheric and geoscience research. Comparable mission of supporting scientific research via computational infrastructure.
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC): Spanish national supercomputing center operating the MareNostrum supercomputer, with HPC and computational modeling research. Comparable as a national HPC center serving academic and government research, with graduate program.
• CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre): Swiss national HPC center serving academic and government research with flagship supercomputing infrastructure. Directly comparable mission of providing national HPC resources for scientific research.
• RIKEN Center for Computational Science: Japanese national research institute operating the Fugaku supercomputer. Comparable as a national HPC center with computational science research and graduate training.

Regional players

• IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center: Czech Republic's national HPC center providing supercomputing access and research collaboration. Comparable as a national-level HPC center with similar academic/government research customer base.

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Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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