The PPGComp research laboratories are located in the building of the Computational Science Center, as well as in the recent facilities of the iTec/FURG Robotics and Data Science Center next to the FURG Technology Park (OCEANTEC).

Automation and Computing Laboratory: this laboratory works on R&D&I in the areas of intelligent robotics and automation and their applications, mainly focused on the naval and offshore industry, energy, education, and the environment. With a total area of ​​approximately 166 m2, the laboratory has the following resources: a fleet of underwater robots (8 robots of different types and manufacturers), linear welding robots, optical, thermal and high-speed cameras (40 thousand frames per second), sonars, lasers, a hundred computers, sensors and actuators for outdoor, indoor and underwater environments, several robotic and simulation structures and platforms, immersion devices, 3D monitors; Platforms for the development of embedded systems; Platforms for identification and tracking using RFID technologies and Sensor Networks.

Scientific Computing Laboratory: has equipment mainly focused on research involving High Performance Computing. In an area of ​​34 m2, there is a Beowulf-type High Performance Cluster with 32 processing cores, 500 Gb of storage connected by a Gigabit network, and an NVIDIA Graphics Cluster.

Environmental Physics Laboratory: focusing on scientific computing for the analysis of environmental phenomena, it currently has several workstations and a computer cluster, in an area of ​​approximately 34 m2.

Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory: focused on research into the paradigm of agent systems and their use in social and environmental modeling and simulation. It has an area of ​​approximately 34 m2, with 20 computers, where graduate and undergraduate students work together.

Computational Biology Laboratory: aims to develop and apply statistical and computational methods to problems arising from the area of ​​Computational Biology. Computing allows the large amount of data obtained from biological systems to be processed in a reasonable time, enabling rapid responses to questions that would take months to be answered in in vitro biological laboratories. In addition, computational methods bring the possibility of simulating biological systems, such as pathogen-host interactions, making it possible to verify various scenarios with very low financial and time costs. It has 7 multiprocessor computers with quad-core processors in an area of ​​34 m2.

Electronics and Digital and Embedded Systems Laboratory: has benches for the development of electro-electronic activities, soldering stations for SMD circuits, recorders/debuggers for microcontrollers, microcontroller development kits, Nexys II kits with XILINX FPGA and DE2-70 and NIOS II kits with ALTERA FPGA for the development of complex digital systems, having an agreement with Altera and Xilinx for the supply of development tools, such as access to the Cadence company's toolkit via an agreement with SBMicro. It has an area of ​​approximately 45 m2.

Geoinformation Technology Laboratory: carries out activities such as the precise measurement of quantities that characterize the Earth's surface and the objects that appear on it, the execution of descriptive, logical, mathematical and statistical operations involving these quantities using geographic space as a reference, and the graphic representation of these real spaces with extended visualization capacity, especially of a cartographic nature. The laboratory has an approximate area of ​​83 m2. It has 14 computers, 2 Crystal Eyes active stereoscopic systems, with Real D IR activation, 2 NVIDIA 3D KIT Professional active stereoscopic systems, 6 PC notebooks, 1 Macbook Pro, 2 iPads, 2 InertiaCube 3 inertial devices, 1 A0 digitizing tablet, 1 Hasselblad 40 Mp medium format camera, 1 pair of dual-frequency GPS receivers with VHF integration (RTK mode with a range of 18 km, 1 Topcon Image Station laser scanner and imager total station (range of up to 5 km), 1 electronic laser level with barcode reading (range of 100m), 2 vehicles, a set of software licenses with this specialization, such as Leica Photogrammetric Suite, Erdas Imagine, PhotoModeller, ArcGIS, EXPERTGPS, Ashtec Solution, Autodesk Map, MatLab).

Flexible Computing Laboratory / Information Management Laboratory: aims to develop theories, models, techniques, methods and software that offer solutions that are tolerant to subjectivity, imprecision, uncertainty, incomplete, partial or conflicting information, partial truth and partial possibility, which appear in the modeling of complex systems and/or imperfect information. The Information Management laboratory develops research activities related to the collection, extraction, visualization, recovery, and recommendation of information. These laboratories share a physical space of 45 m2, where they have 20 computers, 2 servers, 2 uninterruptible power supplies, a 55” television, professional videoconferencing equipment, a printer, and a tablet.

Educational Technologies Laboratory (InfoEduc): focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching, research, and extension, with the aim of applying and developing Interaction and Communication Technologies in Special Education, for blind and deaf people, among other areas such as Artificial Intelligence applied to Education. It has an available physical area of ​​34 m2, where the following equipment is installed: 15 computers, five notebooks, four workstations, two servers for storing datasets, two printers, and a 55” smart TV for meetings and other interactions via videoconference.

In addition, the Computational Science Center has nine teaching laboratories. Of these, seven are computer labs, totaling 220 computers with free software resources available to students. There is also an electronics lab with an area of ​​80 m2 equipped with 8 digital oscilloscopes; 8 DC sources - 2 x 30V + 1 x 5V; 8 digital multimeters; 8 signal generators; 8 soldering stations; 2 soldering stations for SMD; 8 recorders/debuggers for microcontrollers; 2 wattmeter clamps - TRUE RMS; 2 ammeter clamps; 8 computers; 10 Arduino kits; 5 FPGA boards; protoboards and various electronic components. The last teaching laboratory is the Automation laboratory, with an area of ​​51 m2, 3 control and automation benches for level, flow, and temperature variables with PLC and HMI, 4 pneumatic and electropneumatic work panels, three vertical panels with PLC kit, HMI, power supply, and frequency inverter for three-phase motor, 18 board kits with sensors, signal conditioning, 2 of which with PLC, 7 HMI panels, 1 three-phase electrical work panel with current, voltage, and power factor indicators, capacitor bank, switches, and protections, 1 three-phase induction motor test bench coupled to an eddy current electromagnetic brake, 1 servo drive bench with brushless motor, 1 three-phase motor drive bench with frequency inverter, and 1 PLC-controlled electropneumatic manufacturing bench.

PPGComp also has 5  exclusive rooms for postgraduate scholarship holders, which are organized by participation in specific projects.