USP is considered as Brazil's University - 176th in the Times Higher Education 2007 World University Rankings, 121th in the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and 113th place in the Webometrics. In this 11th participation in SC08 Research Area, LSI-USP presents R&D Projects in HPC, Visualization and Imaging, including research works with CELL Processor, OpenSparc and GPUs.