---
name: "music"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "music-bin"
version: "1.2.1-0.7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/music"
---

# music(1)

launch a multi-simulation using MUSIC

## NAME

music - launch a multi-simulation using MUSIC

## SYNOPSIS

**mpirun** \[*mpirun-options*\] **music** \[*options*\] *config*\
 **music** \[*options*\] *config*...

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **music** utility.

**music** is used to launch a multi-simulation, i.e., an MPI job partitioned between a set of parallel programs.  Such programs need to be MUSIC-aware (see documentation for the MUSIC library).  MUSIC also provides facilities for these programs to exchange data.

The second form of the command above (without **mpirun**) can be used to print out an application rank map or version information.

## OPTIONS

The **music** utility follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the MUSIC manual.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-m, --map**

  Print application rank map.

- **-v, --version**

  Show version of program.

## AUTHOR

MUSIC was written by Mikael Djurfeldt and Örjan Ekeberg for INCF.

This manual page was written by Mikael Djurfeldt \<mdj@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).