R&D 100 Award Winners: UMap and UnifyFS


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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 ​)

UnifyFS (user-level file system for supercomputers)

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.