Multi-simulation coordinator
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MUSIC is software developed and released by the INCF and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) School of Computer Science and Communication in Stockholm, Sweden. MUSIC allows spike events and continuous time series to be communicated between applications in a cluster computer. The typical usage cases are connecting models developed for different simulators and connecting a parallel simulator to a post-processing tool.
MUSIC provides a standardized software interface (API) on top of the message-passing interface (MPI
) for communication among parallel applications for large-scale simulation of neural networks
. It enables the transfer of massive amounts of event information and continuous values from one parallel application to another, including those using different data allocation strategies. In the design of the standard interface, care was taken to allow easy adaptation of existing simulators and to permit third-party development and community-sharing of reusable and interoperable software tools for parallel processing. The developers and colleagues from the NEST
and MOOSE simulator communities demonstrated interoperability via MUSIC at the 2008 Society for Neuroscience
meeting.
The MUSIC software library and its documentation are publicly available through the INCF Software Center.
MUSIC provides a standardized software interface (API) on top of the message-passing interface (MPI
Message Passing Interface
Message Passing Interface is a standardized and portable message-passing system designed by a group of researchers from academia and industry to function on a wide variety of parallel computers...
) for communication among parallel applications for large-scale simulation of neural networks
Neural Networks
Neural Networks is the official journal of the three oldest societies dedicated to research in neural networks: International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society and Japanese Neural Network Society, published by Elsevier...
. It enables the transfer of massive amounts of event information and continuous values from one parallel application to another, including those using different data allocation strategies. In the design of the standard interface, care was taken to allow easy adaptation of existing simulators and to permit third-party development and community-sharing of reusable and interoperable software tools for parallel processing. The developers and colleagues from the NEST
Novell Embedded Systems Technology
Novell Embedded Systems Technology, or NEST, was a series of APIs, data formats and network protocol stacks written in a highly portable fashion intended to be used in embedded systems. The idea was to allow various small devices to access Novell NetWare services, provide such services, or use...
and MOOSE simulator communities demonstrated interoperability via MUSIC at the 2008 Society for Neuroscience
Society for Neuroscience
The Society for Neuroscience is a professional society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the brain and nervous system.-History:...
meeting.
The MUSIC software library and its documentation are publicly available through the INCF Software Center.