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Adding MUSCLE to Multiscale Simulations
The Multiscale Coupling Library and Environment 2 project was launched recently to implement and execute multiscale models with feedback loops.
Credit: HPC Wire
In 2010, researchers from different disciplines started the European e-Infrastructure MAPPER project to serve as a general multiscale computing platform. Recently, the Multiscale Coupling Library and Environment 2 (MUSCLE 2) project was launched to implement and execute multiscale models with feedback loops, known as cyclic coupling topologies.
MUSCLE is a domain-independent approach and it runs on several supercomputers and clusters in Europe, as well as the Amazon cloud infrastructure. It consists of a library, scripted coupling, and a runtime environment. MUSCLE runs reach submodel in a separate process, giving it an inherently multiscale parallelism. MUSCLE 2 separates the submodel code from the couple code, which enables users to change the coupling topology without recompiling or redeploying code. In addition, the coupling code is independent from the resources that the simulation will eventually run on, enabling users to access more resources and to take advantage of architectures that are optimal for each of the models involved.
MUSCLE 2 has the option of using the MPWide library, a high-performance communication library that can run directly as a supercomputer job with few dependencies.
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