The Laboratorio Nacional de Computacão Científica (LNCC) exists to stimulate research and education in the area of advanced computing in the country of Brazil. Created in Rio de Janeiro by the National Advisory for Scientific and Technological Development in May of 1980; The LNCC has developed a pioneering role in Brazilian science mainly in the areas of applied and computational mathematics, computational mechanics (solid and fluid), and theory of systems and control.

LNCC, now in the former imperial capital of Petrópolis, is a research unit whose purpose is to act as a center of reference and diffusion for scientific computation in Brazil. This is achieved through the maintenance of a high performance computational environment that is accessible to the national scientific and technological community of Brazil.

Since its foundation, LNCC has been involved in excellent projects of research, development, and education of human resources. Beyond this, the researchers at LNCC have collaborated federal universities in the guidance and creation of 90 doctoral theses in its 21 years of existence.