UPS does not provision

Hi All,

I am trying to provision UPS on SP2013. I have assigned the farm account relevant permissions in AD, but keep getting the below error:

The Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service service terminated with the following service-specific error: 

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I also get:

.Net SqlClient Data Provider: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Data.DatabaseConnection.Open(SqlConnection connection)
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Data.DatabaseConnection.Open(DataStore store)
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Data.TransactionAndConnectionScope..ctor(Boolean createTransaction, IsolationLevel isolationLevel, DataStore dataStore)
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Data.TransactionAndConnectionScope..ctor(Boolean createTransaction)
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Data.DataAccess.RegisterService(String hostName)
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Workflow.Hosting.HostActivator.RegisterService(String hostName)
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Workflow.Hosting.HostActivator.Initialize()
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementServiceHostFactory.CreateServiceHost(String constructorString, Uri[] baseAddresses)
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WindowsHostService.OnStart(String[] args)

Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Service: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementServiceSection.RetrieveRegistryKeyDWORDValue(String registryPath, String registryKey)

Thanks