The proof

Poetry without ballast is perfume. With ballast, it is authority.

We measure ourselves in outcomes, not adjectives. Three regional firsts, each dated and verifiable, the ballast beneath every promise we make.

The dynamics of the impossibilities

The impossible does not exist.

It is only the name we give to what has not yet been achieved.

1903

Flying was impossible.

Kitty Hawk
1938

Splitting the atom was impossible.

nuclear fission
1969

Setting foot on the Moon was impossible.

Apollo 11
2003

Reading the human genome was impossible.

Genome Project
now

The next impossibility already has an owner.

accelerated computing

Each of those dates was, in its time, a reason for laughter. Each required an instrument equal to the question. Our era is no different, only faster. And the instrument, now, is accelerated computing.

The present proof

We have entered the Angstrom Era.

Leading-edge transistors are now measured in handfuls of silicon atoms, the angstrom scale, one tenth of a billionth of a meter. We work at the frontier where engineering touches the limit of what matter allows. From it we draw the tools we deliver to the discovery scientist.

Dated firsts

Proof that is measured in outcomes.

2022
IMPA
1st in Brazil

Academic software-defined data center

The first academic software-defined data center (SDDC) in Brazil, infrastructure defined and orchestrated in software, built for research workloads.

Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
2026
Rede Rio · FAPERJ
1st in the Americas

400G academic coherent-optics metro network

The first academic 400G coherent-optics metropolitan network in the Americas, the optical fabric that interconnects research sites at the speed of light.

Rede Rio de Computadores / FAPERJ
2024
CBPF
1st in Brazil

CUDA Quantum benchmark on GPUs

The first CUDA Quantum benchmark on GPUs in Brazil, hybrid classical-quantum computation validated on accelerated hardware.

Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF)
400G
coherent optics
Case · HexaConnect / Hermes

Distance, eliminated

How ARETE brought Rio de Janeiro research to CERN network standards, the first 400 Gbps academic backbone with coherent optics in Brazil.

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The reach of the work

From the universe to the gene. From photon to exascale.

The same architecture that measures the cosmos models the molecule. Our proofs span the full scientific range, physics, networks and quantum, because discovery does not respect disciplinary borders.

The same curiosity that let Vera Rubin weigh the dark matter holding galaxies together, and Rosalind Franklin read the structure of life in a diffraction image, is the curiosity we accelerate, from the photon that carries the data to the exascale that resolves it.

Physics & cosmos

Accelerated computing for high-energy physics, astronomy and simulation at scale.

Networks & fabric

Coherent optics and metro fabric that turn distant sites into one instrument.

Quantum & hybrid

CUDA Quantum on GPUs, the horizon already validated on the bench.

Bring the question. We will anchor the answer in proof.
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