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High-Performance Computing and Cloud Computing

High-Performance Computing and Cloud Computing is a dynamic and essential field in computer science, focused on the development and application of advanced computing systems capable of processing large amounts of data at extremely high speeds.

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High Performance Computing
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The area of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Computing is a dynamic and essential field in computer science, focused on the development and application of advanced computing systems capable of processing large amounts of data at extremely high speeds. High-Performance Computing involves the use of supercomputers and parallel processing systems to solve complex and processing-intensive problems. Meanwhile, Cloud Computing refers to the use of computing resources (such as servers, storage, databases, networks, software) over the internet, offering scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency.

About the Area Coordinator

Prof. Daniel Sundfeld Lima

At CEDIS, the integration of High-Performance Computing and Cloud Computing is a research and development area of great interest. Coordinated by Prof. Daniel Sundfeld, this research line explores how these two technologies can be combined to offer more powerful and efficient solutions. The research team, comprised of experts in system architecture, computer networks, and software engineering, investigates topics such as algorithm optimization for HPC, the development of scalable cloud infrastructures, security in cloud computing environments, and the integration of cloud services with high-performance capabilities. The goal is to develop new approaches and technologies that fully leverage the large-scale processing capabilities of high-performance computing, along with the flexibility and accessibility of cloud computing, paving the way for innovations across various fields, from big data analysis to the modeling of complex systems.
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Research Team

Undergraduate Research

  • Maurício Ferreira de Araújo

    Accelerating PIC with GPU

    Undergraduate Research2025

Bachelor’s Thesis

  • Leonardo Gonçalves Machado

    Parallel Optimal Solutions for Sliding Puzzle and Rubik's Cube

    Bachelor of Software Engineering - University of Brasília (Brazil)2025

  • Mateus Cunha Maia

    CPU Parallelization Strategies for the Optimization of Biological Sequence Comparison Algorithms

    Bachelor of Software Engineering - University of Brasília (Brazil)2025

  • Victorio Lázaro Rocha de Morais

    Pipeline for the Analysis of Brazilian Biomolecules with an Architecture Based on Microservices and GPUs

    Bachelor of Software Engineering - University of Brasília (Brazil)2025

Previous Researchers

Undergraduate Research

  • Caio Gomes Flausino

    Web Systems Applied to Bioinformatics

    Undergraduate Research2021

  • Laís Alves Corrêa

    Cloud Architecture for HPC

    Undergraduate Research2020

  • Rodrigo Rocha Gomes

    Web Systems Applied to Bioinformatics

    Undergraduate Research2019

Bachelor’s Thesis

  1. Leonardo Gonçalves Machado

    Parallel optimal solutions for Sliding Puzzle and Rubiks Cube

    Senior Project (Bachelor of Software Engineering) - University of Brasília (Brazil)

    2026
  2. Mateus Cunha Maia

    CPU parallelization strategies for optimizing biological sequence comparison algorithms

    Senior Project (Bachelor of Software Engineering) - University of Brasília (Brazil)

    2026
  3. Victorio Lázaro Rocha de Morais

    Pipeline for the analysis of Brazilian biomolecules with an architecture based on microservices and GPUs

    Senior Project (Bachelor of Software Engineering) - University of Brasília (Brazil)

    2026
  4. Lucas Ganda Carvalho, Wictor Bastos Girardi

    Prediction of Code Execution Time in Lambda Functions

    Senior Project (Technology in Internet Systems) - Federal Institute of Brasília (Brazil)

    2023
  5. Eneias Paulo de Oliveira

    PA-Star-Web: a cloud architecture for obtaining optimal multiple alignment of biological sequences

    Senior Project (Technology in Internet Systems) - Federal Institute of Brasília (Brazil)

    2020
  6. Rodrigo Rocha Gomes

    CUDA-Sankoff-Web: a web tool for structural secondary alignment calculation

    Senior Project (Technology in Internet Systems) - Federal Institute of Brasília (Brazil)

    2020

Current Projects

  • Informational Management Support System for MCTI - Ongoing project focused on supporting informational management at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
  • Laguna Project - This project aims to extend the massive processing of a data lake using a cloud architecture, utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the provider.
  • Nimbus - Serverless cloud architecture for automatic code grading.
  • Serviços PI - Ongoing project on innovation and efficiency in retrieving intellectual property information at INPI.

Publications and Productions

Publications (16)

  1. Leonardo Gonçalves Machado

    Parallel optimal solutions for Sliding Puzzle and Rubiks Cube

    Senior Project (Bachelor of Software Engineering) - University of Brasília (Brazil)

    2026
  2. Mateus Cunha Maia

    CPU parallelization strategies for optimizing biological sequence comparison algorithms

    Senior Project (Bachelor of Software Engineering) - University of Brasília (Brazil)

    2026
  3. Victorio Lázaro Rocha de Morais

    Pipeline for the analysis of Brazilian biomolecules with an architecture based on microservices and GPUs

    Senior Project (Bachelor of Software Engineering) - University of Brasília (Brazil)

    2026
  4. ARAÚJO, MAURÍCIO FERREIRA DE, HABL, LUI, Sundfeld, Daniel

    Multithread application for accelerating the Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method

    Brasil

    2025
  5. CANTO, FABIO LORENSI DO, CARVALHO SEGUNDO, WASHINGTON LUÍS RIBEIRO DE, PINTO, ADILSON LUIZ, SUNDFELD, Daniel

    Attraction network among Brazilian Health Sciences journals

    BIBLIOS (LIMA), e005 (1-13)

    2025
  6. Sundfeld, Daniel, TEODORO, GEORGE, Melo, Alba C. M. A.

    PA-Star2: Fast Optimal Multiple Sequence Alignment for Asymmetric Multicore Processors

    2025 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP), p146 • Turin

    2025
  7. CARVALHO SEGUNDO, WASHINGTON LUÍS RIBEIRO DE, CANTO, FABIO LORENSI DO, PINTO, ADILSON LUIZ, SUNDFELD, Daniel Lima

    Atração entre periódicos brasileiros de medicina análise a partir de dados de citação do OpenAlex

    9º Encontro Brasileiro de Bibliometria e Cientometria EBBC

    2024
  8. NEUBERT, PATRICIA DA SILVA, CANTO, FÁBIOLORENSI DO, PINTO, ADILSON LUIZ, LIMA, Daniel Sundfeld, SILVA, FLÁVIO ROBERTO CRUZ

    OpenAlex como fonte de dados para sistemas nacionais de informação científica: a experiência do projeto Laguna

    VII Workshop de Informação, Dados e Tecnologia WIDaT

    2024
  9. PAULINO, GABRIEL R. SCHEIDT, ARAÚJO, RAFAEL CARVALHO J., ROCHA, JOHAN M. G. DA, LIMA, Daniel Sundfeld

    Nimbus: a serverless cloud architecture for automatic code grading

    Brasil

    2024
  10. Lucas Ganda Carvalho, Wictor Bastos Girardi

    Prediction of Code Execution Time in Lambda Functions

    Senior Project (Technology in Internet Systems) - Federal Institute of Brasília (Brazil)

    2023
  11. FLAUSINO, CAIO GOMES, QUEIROZ, DIEGO CÉSAR FLORÊNCIO DE, Sundfeld, Daniel

    LLC: Low Level Contêiner no Linux

    Brasil

    2023
  12. DE OLIVEIRA, ENÉIAS PAULO, Sundfeld, Daniel

    PA-Star-Web: web server para obtenção do alinhamento múltiplo ótimo de sequências biológicas

    Brasil

    2022
  13. GOMES, RODRIGO ROCHA, Sundfeld, Daniel

    CUDA-Sankoff-Web: Uma ferramenta web para cálculo do alinhamento secundário estrutural ótimo

    Escola Regional de Alto Desempenho de São Paulo, p25-28

    2021
  14. Eneias Paulo de Oliveira

    PA-Star-Web: a cloud architecture for obtaining optimal multiple alignment of biological sequences

    Senior Project (Technology in Internet Systems) - Federal Institute of Brasília (Brazil)

    2020
  15. Rodrigo Rocha Gomes

    CUDA-Sankoff-Web: a web tool for structural secondary alignment calculation

    Senior Project (Technology in Internet Systems) - Federal Institute of Brasília (Brazil)

    2020
  16. Sundfeld, Daniel, TEODORO, GEORGE, HAVGAARD, JAKOB H., GORODKIN, JAN, Melo, Alba C. M. A.

    Using GPU to accelerate the pairwise structural RNA alignment with base pair probabilities

    CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, 32 (e5468)

    2020

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