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 Assessment Center (DAAC): Putting visualization and analysis tools and services into the hands of every user.
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) community includes approximately 150 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.
Visit the Portal to the Information Environment (pIE)(HPCMP OpenID Required)
Requirements Questionnaire
To serve the high-performance computing (HPC) community, the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) conducts surveys to capture requirements and customer feedback and to enable continuous improvement of processes. HPCMP Projects provide their input in the Portal to the Information Environment’s (pIE) online requirements questionnaire.
The requirements questionnaire is used to collect HPC requirements from the DoD community, so that the HPCMP can provide an HPC infrastructure to address those requirements. Information gathered in this survey has a direct effect on the availability of HPC resources to the Department of Defense (DoD) Services and Agencies, including those required by the projects. The information provided in this questionnaire may be used to help determine allocations at the DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs), as well as to make key decisions, such as resource acquisitions, training courses, and software licensing.
The goal of the requirements questionnaire is to determine the full scope of actual DoD HPC requirements. Project leaders are asked to state requirements at a level commensurate with their project's personnel and budgetary resources and reasonable, efficient scientific, engineering, or analytical progress, rather than constraining to the level of HPC resources they think will be available. A computational project is defined as an effort to solve similar computational problems using similar methods under common management. Large, diverse projects may be broken down into smaller, more homogeneous projects (typically 1-25 users). Project leaders update requirements annually in the spring.
The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has established DoD Frontier Projects to enable research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), and acquisition engineering outcomes that would not be achievable using typically available HPCMP resources. There are two types of Frontier projects: 1) Foundational Research and Engineering, and 2) Applied Acquisition and Sustainment.
Applied Acquisition and Sustainment Frontier Projects address DoD design, development, and test and evaluation projects; they focus on programs of record, test and evaluation, and quick response science and technology for urgent operational requirements. This type of project is generally more time-critical, and has shorter execution timelines than a Foundational Research and Engineering project. An Applied Acquisition and Sustainment project is expected to use 10’s of millions of core-hours per year over a 3 month to 2-year period. An Applied Acquisition and Sustainment project will benefit from higher system priority that shortens timelines with enhanced throughput.
Due to the occasionally unpredictable timelines or changes for acquisition, test, and sustainment programs, the HPCMP offers an option to apply for and start Applied Acquisition and Sustainment Frontier Projects outside the proposal cycle. The procedures for an out-of-cycle request for Applied Acquisition and Sustainment Projects are available here.
Resource Management consists of five major activities that accomplish these goals:
- Frontier Projects
- Applied Acquisition and Sustainment Frontier Projects Out-of-Cycle Request(Authentication required)
- Requirements Document & Analysis(Authentication required)
- Metrics Management(Authentication required)
- Specialized Requirements for High-Performance Computing
Resource Management collects the requirements of high-performance computing (HPC) users and oversees allocation processes for time on HPCMP supercomputers. This includes both standard allocations and special interest activities, such as Frontier Projects and Dedicated Support Partitions (DSP). The Resource Management team gathers, analyzes, stores, and reports requirements, allocations, and usage information on Department of Defense (DoD) computational projects. This information is captured in the Portal to the Information Environment (pIE) which is managed by the HPCMP with the assistance of the Service/Agency Approval Authorities (S/AAA). If you do not know who your S/AAA is, please contact