The Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) element of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) represents a portfolio of investments for development, deployment, and maintenance of software in response to critical capability requirements of the DoD. These HPCMP CREATE™ software applications enable physics-based virtual prototyping and testing analysis for major Defense weapons programs to increase weapon system agility, flexibility and performance.
HPCMP CREATE™ products are intended for US Government, DoD, and partnering industries use only. All products are export controlled (ITAR or EAR). To acquire or inquire about any of our products, please click here to email us.
To apply for access, click the button below. If you already have a license and a Portal to the Information Environment (pIE) Account, you can directly access CREATE Resources using your CAC or HPCMP-issued YubiKey.
Prior to requesting access to any of the systems at one or more of the DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs), a user must register with the HPCMP (commonly referred to as applying for a pIE account). Need a pIE account? Click here for more information.
CREATE's Purpose
The HPCMP CREATE™ program is designed to improve the DoD acquisition process by developing and deploying five sets of advanced computational engineering design tools for acquisition programs:
- CREATE-AV: Military aircraft design
- CREATE-GV: Ground vehicle design
- CREATE-RF: Radio frequency antenna design and integration with platforms
- CREATE-SH: Military ship design
- CREATE Capstone: Meshing and geometry tool
- CREATE Sage: Software for training, assessing, and refining surrogate models
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program's (HPCMP) User Productivity Enhancement and Training (PET) program gives users access to computational experts with experience spanning a wide variety of HPC technical areas. The PET Team is available to help HPC users become more productive using HPCMP resources with the goal of expediting milestones and reducing overall costs related to technological development to DoD users.
In addition to internal expertise, the PET Team also provides virtual training on effective usage of software, hardware, networking, data transfer, data storage, and visualization of data. PET facilitates and promotes the transfer of scientific and technical knowledge between HPCMP users and the broader computational communities, including DoD and other federal agencies. Help in specific Technical Thrust Areas (TTAs) provide a wide range of expertise including, but not limited to, new delivery methods, emerging hardware exploration, High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA), debugging software, performance improvement with user codes, scalability issues, and porting of software to emerging hardware.
Software Applications provide scientists and engineers with the capacity to create models and simulations of the physical world which support the design, development, testing, and deployment of superior weapons systems. Software Applications components include:
- User Productivity Enhancement and Training (PET): PET Giving users access to computational experts with experience spanning a wide variety of HPC technical areas.
- Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE): Representing a portfolio of investments for development, deployment, and maintenance of software in response to critical capability requirements of the DoD.
- The Data Analysis and Visualization (DAV) Center: Putting visualization and analysis tools and services into the hands of every user.
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) community includes approximately 100 Service/Agency Approval Authorities (S/AAAs) that represent every organization served by the HPCMP. The role of the S/AAA is essential to providing computational resources to Department of Defense (DoD) scientists and engineers within their organization(s). S/AAAs serve as the liaison between the Program and the user. They are the users’ primary point of contact for accounts and allocations on resources provided by the HPCMP. S/AAAs are responsible for:
- Allocating Service-/Agency-controlled CPU compute hours on HPCMP systems
- Providing day-to-day linkage with customer organizations, the HPCMP and other S/AAAs
- Ensuring Project Leaders and authorized users are performing work in support of the DoD
- Implementing requirements surveys, resource allocation, resource monitoring and resource reallocation
- Providing guidance to users on which HPC assets are appropriate for their projects
- Trading allocations with other S/AAAs
View S/AAA List. (DoD PKI Required)
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program Office (HPCMPO) manages its HPC resources usage through two mechanisms—organizationally-controlled allocation of available computer time, and monitoring of actual system utilization. These mechanisms involve interactions among HPC system users, Service/Agency Approval Authorities (S/AAAs), and the HPCMPO to the DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) and their local management systems.
The portal to the Information Environment (pIE) is a web-based user management system that permits users to access the HPCMP ecosystem and tracks resource performance.
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