Infrastructure

Physical Infrastructure and Laboratories of PPGIa

PPGIa offers a modern and well-equipped infrastructure to support academic and research activities. It currently includes a teaching lab with 20 up-to-date computers for classroom activities, as well as two study rooms with 10 computers each. Additionally, it houses six research laboratories, which together feature over 50 computers, printers, scanners, and media acquisition systems.

PPGIa also provides twelve double workstations for faculty members, each equipped with two MacBooks, in addition to a room for the program's administration, a meeting and videoconferencing room, a secretariat, and a technical support sector staffed by two employees responsible for the program’s IT services.

Altogether, PPGIa has a dedicated physical area of 642.96 m². Moreover, an active learning classroom is available in the PPGIa building. All these areas are air-conditioned and equipped to provide a comfortable and productive environment.

Shared Computing Resources of PPGIa

In 2016, a virtual lab was acquired using funds from the FINEP project 1573/2010, amounting to R$ 300,000. This lab includes an IBM Blade chassis with 14 multiprocessor blades, totaling 168 cores and 1,184 TB of RAM, along with a 22 TB storage system and two dedicated NAS units with 88 TB, reaching a total approximate value of R$ 700,000.

Additionally, PPGIa has a Huawei E9000 Blade chassis, which can hold up to 16 blades. Currently, seven of these blades are equipped with GPUs, including three NVIDIA Quadro K2000 and one NVIDIA TESLA M60, which features a grid architecture with 4,096 CUDA® cores (2,048 per GPU). This setup includes 1,696 TB of RAM, 120 cores, 26 TB of converged storage, and a 48 TB NAS, representing an investment of R$ 654,000 (FINEP 0833/13).

Recently, a 32 TB NAS and a new NVIDIA TESLA M60 GPU were acquired.

The PPGIa building is protected by a 50 KVA uninterruptible power supply (UPS), ensuring greater operational stability and system safety.

The university's network infrastructure is supported by a 20 Gbps redundant link, with a 10 Gbps internet connection. PPGIa’s Wi-Fi network operates at 2 Gbps and is integrated with the COMEPE and Eduroam networks, enhancing accessibility and connectivity for faculty and students.

University Computing Resources

In addition to the program’s own labs, students have access to PUCPR’s broader infrastructure, which includes over 20 general-use computing labs, each equipped with 20 to 30 computers and extensive internet access (via RNP, RNP2, and COPEL links). Remote access services are available for program students, and wireless internet is provided throughout the campus. PUCPR’s computing infrastructure is continuously updated, both for program-exclusive use and general campus facilities.

The Integrated Center for Artificial Intelligence Solutions (CISIA) is located within Hotmilk, Paraná’s main Innovation Ecosystem. It is equipped with seven desktop computers with Intel Core i7 processors, 32GB of RAM, and NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPUs (12GB) for deep learning model training. Notably, CISIA secured funding through the Public Call MCTI/FINEP/FNDCT/CT-INFRA-PROINFRA-2021 (reference 0259/22), which enabled the acquisition of a high-performance computer with eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs, significantly boosting the center’s processing capacity (an investment of approximately R$ 5 million).