The annual R&D 100 Awards recognize new S&T products, technologies, and materials for their technological significance that are available for sale or license. This year’s winners were announced on August 22. Congratulations to these teams:
zfp (data compression for supercomputing applications)
- Peter Lindstrom, Danielle Asher, and Mark C. Miller with LLNL alums Stephen Herbein, Matthew Larsen, and Markus Salasoo
- zfp video on YouTube (6:49)
- zfp project summary
- zfp GitHub repository
Variorum (vendor-agnostic power management)
- Tapasya Patki, Stephanie Brink, Aniruddha Marathe, Barry Rountree, Kathleen Shoga, and Elena Green
- Variorum video on YouTube (6:57)
- Variorum project summary
- Variorum GitHub repository
LLNL has had a long history of R&D 100 Awards since the awards began in 1963. Software- and computing-related projects have been recognized in the decades since with PRUNERS, Babel, Sapphire, LLMDA, STAT, ROSE compiler, hypre, and others. Since 2019, LLNL teams have produced six open source finalists and/or winners: Spack, SCR, MFEM, Flux, Variorum, and zfp.
