[4] The program comprises three primary elements: DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs), which provide large scale supercomputers and operations staff; Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), a nationwide high speed, low latency, R&D network connecting the centers and major user communities; and a collection of efforts in software applications to develop, modernize, and maintain software to address DoD's science and engineering challenges.

[7] Each center hosts large-scale supercomputers, high-speed networks, multi-petabyte archival mass storage systems, and computational experts.

DREN connects scientists and engineers with the HPCMP's geographically dispersed high performance computing (HPC) sites, including the five DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs).

HPC Software Applications Institutes, or HSAIs, are cross-disciplinary projects funded by the HPCMP but executed in the DoD labs.

The HSAI program both develops tools to solve important computational problems facing the DoD and build organic HPC expertise within the department.

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.

The charter of CREATE is to reduce the cost, time, and risks of DoD acquisition programs by developing and deploying multidisciplinary, physics-based software applications for the design and analysis of military aircraft, naval ships, and radio frequency antenna systems (expanded to include ground vehicles in 2012) by DoD engineering organizations.

CREATE-FT – Foundational Technologies Product Capstone – Geometry, Mesh and Attribution Generation Software platform to create, modify, and query geometry mesh and attribution information to define a numerical representation (digital model) for physics-based simulation of complex engineering systems.

CREATE-RF – Radio Frequency Antenna Products SENTRi – Antenna Modeling, Design and Analysis Modeling of complex structures, including highly heterogeneous material structures with multi-scaled features to include: dielectric, magnetic, impedance boundary conditions, and complex valued resistive sheets.

IHDE – Integration, Design and Analysis Enables the integration of a suite of hull form design and analysis tools for users to evaluate hydrodynamic performance (including visualization) in areas of resistance, seakeeping, hydrodynamic loads, and operability in the form of percent time operable (PTO).

CREATE-Genesis – Tool Suite for Aerospace Education Genesis CFD – Fluid Dynamics Analysis Provides basic computational fluid dynamics analysis capabilities to include: single mesh unstructured Navier-Stokes solver (core count constrained), motion (prescribed and 6-DOF), modal model based aeroelastic structures, and 0-D linear engine model for propulsion boundary conditions.