Research FUNDING | COMPUTING TIME | OBSERVING TIME WITH TELESCOPES | CONSORTIA
2020-2022 | “EUROCC: National Competence Centres in the framework of EuroHPC”
Funded under EuroHPC-04-2019-RIA program, EuroHPC/European Commission. Proposal ID: 951732
PI: Stuttgart University/high Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart
CoIs: 34 partners from the academia and supercomputing centres across Europe, including the Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal. U.Evora is a third party of FCT, Portugal
Total funding: €56.341.819,25.
Funding for U.Evora: €212.280,00.
PI U.Evora: M. Avillez.
2020-2022 | “High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) of Large volumes of Data”
European Commission & Regional Coordinating Commission of Alentejo.
Funding for U.Evora: €443.415,00.
PI: M.Avillez
2020 | “Benchmarking the Cosmological Code Gadget 4 – PRACE-6IP T7.4.A”
PRACE Preparatory Access Type B.
Project ID: PA4854
Computing time awarded: 850 000 Core hours
Supercomputing resources awarded: MareNostrum 4 (Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain): 200 000 hours; IRENE-KNL (TGCC, France): 200 000 hours; IRENE- SKL (TGCC, France): 200 000 hours, JUWELS (Julich Supercomputer Center, Germany): 50 000 hours, SuperMUC (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities): 200 000 hours
PI: M. Avillez
2020-2022 | “HPC+HPDA Consortium-Mobilities to Europe”
ERASMUS+ National Agency, Portugal
Project ID: 2020-1-PT01-KA103-078153
Total funding (for U.Evora): €126.200,00
CoIs: P. Alberto (U.Coimbra), L. Cruzeiro (U.Algarve), M.Guerra (U. Nova Lisboa)
PI: M.Avillez (U.Évora)
2020-2021 | “Deep observation of the southern disk of M31”
XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, European Space Agency. Approved AO19 (November 2019)
Project ID: 086026
Allocated observing time: 212 kilo seconds
Number of targets: 4 targets in M31
PI: Manami Sasaki (Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), 11 CoIs of different countries.
CoI: M. Avillez
2019-2021 | “High Performance Computing + High Performance Data Analytics (HPC+HPDA) Mobility Consortium”
ERASMUS+ Program, ERASMUS+ National Agency, Portugal Project ID: 2019-1-PT01-KA108-060620
Four partners: U.Évora, U.Coimbra, U.Algarve. U. Nova Lisboa
PI: M.Avillez (U.Évora)
2019-2021 | “HPC+HPDA Consortium-Mobilities to Europe”
ERASMUS+ Program, ERASMUS+ National Agency, Portugal
Project ID: 2019-1-PT01-KA103-060660
Total funding (for U.Evora): €72.420,00
CoIs: P. Alberto (U.Coimbra), L. Cruzeiro (U.Algarve), M.Guerra (U. Nova Lisboa)
PI: M.Avillez (U.Évora)
2019 | “Three-dimensional time-dependent joint dynamical and ionic evolution of the interstellar gas in a section of the Milky Way”
PRACE Preparatory Access Type A
Project ID: PA4820
Computing time awarded: 120 000 Core hours
Supercomputing resources awarded: MareNostrum 4 (Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain): 50 000 hours; IRENE-SKL (TGCC, France): 50 000 hours, JUWELS (Julich Supercomputer Center, Germany): 20 000 hours.
CoI: Dieter Breitschwerdt (Technical University Berlin)
PI: M. Avillez
2019 | “Benchmarking the Astrophysics Software Gadget PRACE-5IP T7.3.A UEABS”
PRACE Preparatory Access Type B.
Project ID: PA4854
Computing time awarded: 750 000 Core hours
Supercomputing resources awarded: MARCONI (KNL; CINECA, Italy): 200 000 hours; MareNostrum 4 (Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain): 200 000 hours; IRENE-KNL (TGCC, France): 200 000 hours; IRENE-SKL (TGCC, France): 200 000 hours, JUWELS (Julich Supercomputer Center, Germany): 50 000 hours.
CoI: João Pedro Rocha (U. Évora)
PI: M. Avillez
2019-2021 | “PRACE-6IP: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – 6th Implementation Phase Project”
Funded under H2020-EU.1.4.1.3. program, European Commission. Grant agreement: 823767
PI: Julich Supercomputer Centre
CoIs: 50 partners from academia and supercomputing centres across Europe including University of Coimbra. U.Evora is a third party of U.Coimbra
Total funding: €29.077.704,50.
Funding for U.Evora: €58.000,00.
PI U.Evora: M. Avillez.
2018-2021 | “Enabling Green E-science for the SKA Research Infrastructure – ENGAGE SKA”
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022217, COMPETE 2020 and Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal.
Partners: Instituto de Telecomunicações de Aveiro (PI), U. Aveiro, U.Porto, U. Évora and Instituto Politécnico de Beja.
Total funding: €3.859.076,89.
Funding for U.Evora: €957.000,00.
PI U.Evora: M. Avillez
2017-2019 | “PRACE-5IP: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – 5th Implementation Phase Project”
Funded under H2020-EU.1.4.1.3. program, European Commission. Grant agreement: 730913
PI: Julich Supercomputer Centre
CoIs: 50 partners from academia and supercomputing centres across Europe including University of Coimbra. U.Evora is a third party of U.Coimbra
Total funding: €15.785.078,75.
Funding for U.Evora: €58.625,00.
PI U.Evora: M. Avillez
2015-2017 | “PRACE-4IP: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – 4th Implementation Phase Project”
Funded under H2020-EU.1.4.1.3. program, European Commission. Grant agreement: 653838
PI: Julich Supercomputer Centre
CoIs: 50 partners from academia and supercomputing centres across Europe including University of Coimbra. U.Evora is a third party of U.Coimbra
Total funding: €16.354.408,25.
Funding for U.Evora: €114.990,38.
PI U.Evora: M. Avillez
2015-2017 | “Deep observation of the nothern disk of M31”
XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, European Space Agency. Approved AO14 Large Program.
Project ID: 76312
Allocated observing time: 412 kilo seconds.
Number of targets: 8 targets in Northern M31.
PI: Manami Sasaki (U. Tuebingen, Germany), 14 CoIs of different countries.
CoI: M.Avillez
2014-2015 | “Hybrid Computing Using Accelerators & Coprocessors – Modelling Nature With a Novel Approach”
European Commission & Regional Coordinating Commission of Alentejo.
Total funding (for U.Evora): €153.167,46.
PI: M.Avillez
2013-2014 | “Low temperature X-ray emission in the interstellar medium”
CPC (U. Coimbra) & Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal
Supercomputing resources awarded: Milipeia Supercomputer Computing time awarded: 200,000 Core hours
PI: M.Avillez
2011-2014 | “PRACE-2IP: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – 2nd Implementation Phase Project”
Funded under FP7-Infrastructures program, European Commission. Grant agreement: 283493
PI: Julich Supercomputer Centre
CoIs: 59 partners including academia and supercomputing centres across Europe. U.Evora is a third party of U.Coimbra
Total funding: €31.176.359,00 (31 M€)
Funding for U.Evora: €112.704,97
PI U.Evora: M. Avillez
2009 | “Supercomputing 2009”
ASTROSIM program, European Science Foundation
Project ID: ESF-2320
Total funding: €14.000,00
PI: M.Avillez
2009 | “ERASMUS Intensive Program: Supercomputing and Numerical Techniques in Astrophysics Fluid Flow Modeling 2009”
European Commission/ERASMUS
Project ID: IP-01095-P EVORA01
Partners: U.Évora (PI), U.Coimbra, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, École Normale Superieur (Paris, France), Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (Germany), University of Vienna (Austria), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Total funding (for U.Evora): €30.470,81
PI: M. Avillez
2009 | “Impact of High Velocity Clouds with the Galactic Disk”
CPC (U. Coimbra) & Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal
Supercomputing resources awarded: Milipeia Supercomputer
Computing time awarded: 47,000 Core hours
PI: M.Avillez
2009 | “Diffuse Ionized Gas in Star Forming Galaxies”
CPC (U. Coimbra) & Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal
Supercomputing resources awarded: Milipeia Supercomputer
Computing time awarded: 25,000 Core hours
PI: M.Avillez
2008 | “ERASMUS Intensive Program: Supercomputing and Numerical Techniques in Astrophysics Fluid Flow Modeling”
ERASMUS program, European Commission Project ID: IP-EVORA01-18-1
Total funding: €33.871,00
PI: M. Avillez
2008 | “The Role of Disk-Halo Interaction in Galaxy Evolution: Outflow vs. Infall?”
ASTROSIM program, European Science Foundation
Project ID: ESF-2160
Total funding: €5.000,00
PI: M.Avillez
2008 |. “Grand Challenges in Computational Astrophysics – JENAM 2008”
ASTROSIM program, European Science Foundation
Project ID: ESF-2079
Total funding: €14.000,00
PI: M. Avillez
CoPI: H.Wozniak & D. Breitschwerdt
2008 | “Supercomputing 2008 – Supercomputing and Numerical Methods in Astrophysics Fluid Flow Modelling”
ASTROSIM program; European Science Foundation
Project ID: ESF-1838
Total funding: €18.774,00
PI: M.Avillez
2008 | “Interstellar Turbulence and Fragmentation of Shocked Compressed Layers”
FAPESP (Brazil)
Project ID: PAPESP 2008/56956-7
Funding: $Re 9.000,00
PI: M.Avillez & E. Gouveia dal Pino
2008-2011 | ”The Ionization of Diffuse Extraplanar Gas Layers in Spiral Galaxies”
Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT)
Project ID: PTDC/CTE-AST/70877/2006
Total funding: €30.000,00
PI: M. Avillez
2007-2008 | “Molecular cloud formation in the turbulent interstellar medium”
CPC (U. Coimbra) & Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal
Supercomputing resources awarded: Milipeia Supercomputer
Computing time awarded: 150 000 Core hours
PI: M. Avillez
2007-2010 | ”Investigation of the physics of supersonic compressible turbulence by high-resolution numerical simulations of molecular clouds in star forming galaxies”
Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT)
Project ID: PTDC/FIS/70878/2006
Total funding: €121.568,00
PI: M. Avillez
2006-2011 | “ASTROSIM – European Network of Computacional Astrophysics”
Funded by 13 supporting European Science Foundation Member Organisations from 12 countries. Total funding: €1.025.000,00.
PI: Ben Moore (ETH, U. Zurich). 14 European Partners.
PI Portugal/U.Evora: M. Avillez
2005-2009 | “The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): A Deep Survey of the Nearest Face-on Spiral Galaxy”
Chandra X-ray telescope, NASA
Observing time: 1.4 Million seconds;
Total funding: $329,000.
PI: M. Sasaki (Harvard-Smithsonian Center, US). 21 Co-Is.
CoI: M. Avillez
2005-2007 | ”Turbulent Mixing in the Interstellar Medium of Star Forming Galaxies”
Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT)
Project ID: POCI/FIS/58352/2004
Total funding: €15.000,00
PI: M. Avillez
2003-2004 | “Formation of Stars and Stellar Clusters in the Turbulent ISM”
National Science Foundation and Alliance Allocation Board, US Supercomputing resources awarded: Pittsburgh Supercomputer
Computing time awarded: 100,000 hours
PI: M.-M. Mac Low (AMNH, US)
CoI: M.Avillez
2001-2003 | ”Self-Consistent Dynamical and Thermal Evolution of Galactic Fountains”
Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (FCT)
Project ID: PESO/P/PRO/40149/2000
Total funding: €30.000,00
PI: M. Avillez
1998-2000 | ”Neutral Hydrogen Cloudlets in the Northern Galactic Hemisphere”
Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (FCT) / European Southern Observatory (ESO) Project ID: PESO/P/PRO/1189/97
Total funding: €35.000,00
PI: M. Avillez