📋 Tender Overview
The new supercomputer of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), is already in the building of the Center for Time Forecasting and Climate Studies (CPTEC), at the Inpe Unit in Cachoeira Paulista (SP).
With a significantly higher capacity for data processing and storage, the equipment will allow advances in numerical time, weather and environmental models. In addition, it will enable more detailed and accurate simulations, essential for the forecast of extreme events and studies on climate change, as explained by Inpes Earth Sciences Coordinator, Jose Antonio Aravequia.
The new supercomputer represents a significant advance for studies on climate change and the generation of future scenarios for Brazil. Its processing capacity is much higher than the previous system, which will allow more detailed and accurate simulations, he said.
According to Aravequia, these advances are crucial to understanding the impacts of climate change and the formulation of adaptation strategies.
The system will be able to run high -resolution numerical models, allowing detailed projections about Brazils climate in the coming decades, contributing to public policies and mitigation actions, he explained.
New system applications
The products generated by the supercomputer have applications in various strategic sectors. In agribusiness, one of the pillars of the Brazilian economy, the system can be used to improve agricultural production and management. In the health sector, it contributes to the planning and control of epidemics. Already in monitoring of severe events, their ability to run models in high spatial resolution is essential to subsidize the sending of short -term alerts, ensuring greater support for the issuance of alerts and the coordination of emergency actions, especially by the Civil Defense.
The new Inpe supercomputation system also operates a robust satellite environmental monitoring system, essential for a country of continental dimensions such as Brazil. The system will contribute to climate studies, allowing to run higher resolution simulations, improving the accuracy of predictions on climate change and their impacts in Brazil and South America, said Aravequia.
The benefits of the supercomputer are numerous, with the highest processing capacity it will be possible to create detailed climate projections in the coming decades, assisting in the formation of public policies, adaptation strategies and helping the population. The system will also help to predict phenomena such as droughts, storms and hot waves in advance, allowing more effective answers, he added.
