Centro de Previsão do Tempo e Estudos Climáticos

Centro de Previsão do Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC, Portuguese for Center for Weather Forecast and Climatic Studies) is the numerical weather prediction agency of Brazil, part of INPE (National Institute for Space Research). Its mission is to provide to Brazil with weather and climate forecasts. CPTEC is the most advanced center for numerical weather prediction and climate in Latin America, providing forecasts for short and medium-term climate and high precision, since the beginning of 1995. CPTEC uses supercomputers and knowledge of its staff to achieve the same level as forecasting centers in more developed countries.

Centro de Previsão do Tempo e Estudos Climáticos

Entrance of the Center in São Paulo.
Agency overview
Formed1995 (1995)[1]
JurisdictionBrazilian Government
HeadquartersCachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Parent agencyNational Institute for Space Research
Websitewww.cptec.inpe.br

CPTEC receives information through the data network of the World Meteorological Organization and other national networks, in addition to the Brazilian satellite (SCD-1). In addition to the cluster manufactured by Sun Microsystems, with a processing capacity of 5.7 trillion operations per second, it enables simulation with numerical models of weather and climate, integrating atmospheric and oceanic information. In activity until 2009, in 2010 a Cray XE6 supercomputer (31,104 cores) was purchased from Cray Inc. with a performance of 214.2 TFLOP/s, dubbed "Tupã".[2]

References
  1. "Glossários" (in Portuguese). CPTEC. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  2. "Tup - Cray XE6, Opteron 6172 12C 2.10GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect". Top 500. Top500.org. Retrieved August 29, 2018.



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