INFRASTRUCTURE
The PPGBEA is physically located within the Department of Statistics and Computer Science. The PPGBEA's own infrastructure and that shared with other UFRPE programs are described below.
Physical Facilities and Computing Resources:
The Biometrics and Applied Statistics program's facilities include:
-Auditorium with capacity for 50 people, equipped with a projector, digital board, 52" full HD TV, and glass board;
-Teaching and research laboratory with 10 desktop PCs with 3.70 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 processors, 16GB of memory, and 500GB SSD, whiteboard, and 50" TV, connected to the internet, and equipped with Visual Studio C, R, and WINBUGS software, among others, for master's and doctoral classes and use by undergraduate students;
- Two classrooms with capacity for up to 25 students, equipped with a 42" TV and glass board; - Two study and research rooms for program students; - Meeting room, coordination and secretarial office, and visiting professor's office.
- Laser printers for printing assignments, and we regularly maintain the equipment to ensure they are always in good working order.
- High-performance computing laboratory with a computer cluster consisting of 13 workstations with NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards (1 RTX A6000, 4 RTX A4500, 5 RTX A4000, 6 Quadro K620), GeForce (3 GTX 980 Ti), and 1 Titan X, totaling 20 GPUs, two 44U/19" racks, four Dell Power Edge R230 servers, one Dell Power Edge R550 server, one Dell Power Edge R770 server, and one Razor Xeon server. 5th Generation Silver, with 128GB RAM, achieving a processing capacity of around 270 TFLOPs. Two 3KVA intelligent UPSs with a battery bank (four 240 Ah stationary batteries) and a 20KVA EATON UPS also with a battery bank (three dual 380V battery modules), guaranteeing a stable, high-quality power supply for the uninterrupted operation of the entire computing infrastructure. This laboratory, with remote access, was built in partnership with the research groups IFROG (Interdisciplinary Forecasting Research Oriented Group -- http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/0829286569783180) and LACUNA (Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Modeling of Complex Natural Phenomena -- http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/336471), to support more demanding research. Computing. The room has uninterrupted cooling through three air conditioning units of 36,000, 32,000, and 24,000 BTUs, located on the premises of the Department of Statistics and Computer Science – DEINFO/UFRPE, which provides 50kVA electrical infrastructure, logical networks with 10 Gigabit bandwidth, a technical team for minor repairs, and an administrative team for bureaucratic support.
- The computing platform seeks to combine all available computing power with the ease of allowing current IT professionals to maintain a local solution that is easy to maintain and configure. Furthermore, it allows the academic community to run codes and simulations for their research or use it as a teaching tool for parallel programming. The Parallel Experiment for Sequential Code (PESC) is a platform that aims to provide access to available idle computing resources. Furthermore, it allows users to configure their code execution and computer simulation environments with these resources. All user interaction with PESC is implemented through a web interface, ensuring autonomy in both the execution process and the monitoring of ongoing requests. Each user code is associated with an execution request and packaged in a Docker container, which is distributed by a server to client computers. Furthermore, the server monitors the status of each execution to redistribute the workload and perform relocations to other computers in case of failure or lack of communication. Thanks to the use of containers, programs created in different languages can be executed on the PESC platform.
- Faculty and students also have access to the Eduroam (education roaming) network. This allows wireless Internet connection locally (UFRPE) and at thousands of access points in Brazil and around the world using the same login/password. Thus, a UFRPE user (faculty, student, and administrative staff) can, for example, access the network of another national/international university that offers the eduroam service, using the credentials they hold at our institution. The network eduroam is a federated service provided by RNP (National Education and Research Network) for institutions participating in CAFe (Federated Academic Community).
Library and Collection
The UFRPE Integrated Library System (SIB-UFRPE) collection comprises approximately 230,000 volumes and can be consulted through the Pergamum Online Catalog. The materials are organized into collections and cataloged based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). The UFRPE library has a collection of books (98,272 copies) in the following areas: Exact and Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering/Technology, Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Humanities, Linguistics, Literature, and Arts. It also has a collection of national and international periodicals, totaling 51,674 titles. Additionally, UFRPE provides access to the CAPES Periodicals Portal, including outside the institution, to all faculty, students, and staff at the University. · Various databases available for consultation:
- BDTD - Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBCT) integrates the thesis and dissertation information systems existing in Brazilian teaching and research institutions, enabling the Brazilian S&T community to publish their theses and dissertations produced in Brazil and abroad, providing greater visibility to national scientific production.
- BDTD UFRPE - Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, brings together publications produced by UFRPE's Graduate Programs (Master's and Doctorate). Full texts of these works are available in PDF format for download.
- UFRPE Journals Portal - Houses scientific journals produced within the university, ensuring greater visibility of scientific production. The Portal uses the Electronic Journal Publishing System (SEER), translated by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT). Minha Biblioteca is a digital library solution that offers a multidisciplinary catalog from leading Brazilian academic publishers. Recognized by the Ministry of Education (MEC) as a library collection, it assists higher education institutions in the recognition and evaluation of in-person and distance learning courses. The database was created by UFRPE during the Special Academic Period to meet the demand from students and faculty for books in UFRPE's graduate, undergraduate, secondary, and technical programs.
Services - Standardization of Academic Works: Guidance on preparing reports, monographs, dissertations, and theses in accordance with the standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT).
Bibliographic Commutation (COMUT) is a service that allows you to obtain copies of technical and scientific documents available in the collections of major Brazilian libraries and international information services. Research Space: The Central Library's Periodicals Sector provides computers with internet access for academic research in databases and on the CAPES Periodicals Portal. The space is located on the first floor of the Central Library.
- Database Training: The Central Library offers its users database training, focusing on the use of databases subscribed to by SIB-UFRPE, their tools, and guidelines for academic research. Considering the city of Recife as a whole, a much wider range of appropriate bibliographic material is available for consultation in the various libraries, primarily at the Federal University of Pernambuco, the University of Pernambuco, the Catholic University, and the Joaquim Nabuco Institute, whose president is Prof. José Fernando Freire of UFRPE. Combined with the conveniences provided by the internet, we have a very broad range of information access. The collection contains 40,778 copies in the following areas of concentration: exact and earth sciences, agricultural sciences, biological sciences, engineering/technology, linguistics, and humanities. Periodical collection: National - 842 titles; Foreign - 668 titles. Total of 1,510 titles (area of activity: agricultural sciences).
It is worth emphasizing that, in line with internet access, access to information (especially journal searches) has been greatly facilitated by the CAPES Portal, including for home use through Rede Café, since UFRPE allows remote access to said Portal and participates in CAPES's Pró-Multiplicar Program. Soon, it will no longer make sense for any program to collect information in paper form that can be accessed more quickly, economically, and efficiently electronically. In particular, access to scientific journals, available to Brazilian IFES, can be compared with that of the most renowned (and wealthiest) universities in the world. The results of this revolutionary CAPES policy, with the popularization of scientific information, should be strongly reflected in the significant advances of Brazilian science worldwide in the coming decades. To conserve resources and avoid paper waste, the PPGBEA currently sends only electronic copies of final papers to the UFRPE Central Library, a rule that applies to all stricto sensu programs at this institution. Furthermore, all defended theses and dissertations that are not protected by patents or any other form of copyright are published on our website (www.ppgbea.ufrpe.br). This is done with the consent of authors and advisors.