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. The 2024 winners were announced on August 8. Congratulations to these teams:
UMap (fast, extensible memory-mapping library for diverse data storage )
- LLNL developers: Maya Gokhale, Marty McFadden, Elena Green, Roger Pearce, Keita Iwabuchi, Karim Youssef
- UMap video on YouTube (4:55)
- UMap project summary
- UMap GitHub repository
UnifyFS (user-level file system for supercomputers)
- LLNL developers: Kathryn Mohror, Cameron Stanavige, Chen Wang, Hariharan Devarajan, Ned Bass, Tony Hutter
- UnifyFS video on YouTube (5:46)
- UnifyFS project summary
- UnifyFS 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 eight open source finalists and/or winners: Spack, SCR, MFEM, Flux, Variorum, zfp, UMap, and UnifyFS.