The São Paulo Research and Analysis Center (SPRACE) develops fundamental and applied research in areas such as high energy physics (HEP), scientific instrumentation, high performance computing (HPC) and digital innovation. Implemented in 2003 with support from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), SPRACE enables the participation of HEP researchers from the State of São Paulo in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

SPRACE operates the BR-SP-SPRACE cluster, which is a Tier 2 of the WorldWide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). Here we process, analyze and store data generated by CMS. Our engineering team is working on the development of a Level 1 trigger that will be implemented in the second stage of the CMS tracking detector upgrade.

SPRACE also collaborates with private companies in digital innovation projects, with emphasis on HPC, Machine Learning and Software Defined Networks (SDN).