Horizon 2020 ICT and Advanced Materials & Manufacturing

1. QUB DSSC &
Horizon 2020
Stuart Campbell - Business Development Manager DSSC

2. ● EU Horizon 2020 – Uniserver (£1.1m - £4.3m total) – A Universal Micro-Server Ecosystem
● EU Horizon 2020 - Vineyard (£588k) - Versatile Integrated Accelerator-based
Heterogeneous Data Centres
● EU Horizon 2020 – EcoScale (£697k) – Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Computing at
Exascale
● EU FP7 – CACTOS (£583k) – Context-Aware Cloud Topology Optimisation and Simulation
● EU FP7 – Nanostreams (£729k - £3m total) – A Hardware and Software stack for Real-Time
Analytics on Fast Data Streams
DSSC & EU Funded Research

3. Nanostreams - The Consortium

4. Value to the Company - IBM

5. QUB DSSC Value to the Project

6. QUB Project R&D Objectives
● Heterogeneous, power-efficient micro-server architecture
● Highly programmable
● New capabilities in the system software stack
● Range of use cases in real-time data analytics

7. Project Outputs
● Credit Suisse (110k) - NDA - Ask their lawyers!
● IBM (490k) a valuable tool that is still widely used within IBM
● Analytic Engines (750k) input to data platform - XDP - with focus on the real-time analytics
functionality for reporting
● Neueda (530k) specific product development efforts in trading risk analytics service
● QUB DSSC (966K) - 40 papers published, prototype to run applications on and further
research - ICU & Financial applications

8. Benefits
● Job creation both in University and Companies
● Counts towards academics Research Excellence Framework (REF)
● Great mechanism for Universities to work on real world problems
● Transfers research IP into competitive advantage for consortium members
● Forges lasting relationships for future engagements from PhD sponsorship to contract research
and future proposal partners - Uniserver, Vineyard.

9. Pit Falls
● IP - Project by project basis
● Finding a consortium and writing proposal
● Finding a consortium willing to invest money
● Finding a patient consortium - 3/4 Years of research