This document discusses several EU Horizon 2020 and FP7 projects involving QUB DSSC related to heterogeneous and energy-efficient computing. It provides details on the projects, including funding amounts ranging from £583k to £4.3m. The Nanostreams project consortium included IBM, Credit Suisse, Analytic Engines, Neueda, and QUB DSSC. Benefits of the projects included job creation, advancing research, transferring IP to consortium members, and forging lasting relationships for future collaborations. Potential pitfalls included managing IP rights, finding invested consortium members, and the multi-year time commitment.

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