mesa-users] parallel usage of MESA...

[Bill Paxton]

Hi Ehsan,

MESA supports OpenMP parallelism.

There are compiler flags for openmp;
the standard default in utils/makefile_header
is to enable OpenMP, but you might want
to double check.

For ifort, you should find:
FCopenmp = -openmp -threads

For gfortran,
FCopenmp = -fopenmp


At runtime, the openmp implementation checks
an environment variable to see how many
threads to use.   On my dual core Mac,
I set this to 2.  On a qual-core server, you might
set it to 4 or even 8.  Depending on your shell,
the command looks something like this:

setenv OMP_NUM_THREADS 2


Finally, to get the most benefit, it helps to reduce
the IO since it is a bottleneck for parallelism.
For mesa/star, this means limiting the frequency
of writing info to log files.   My default is

       photostep = 50
       profile_interval = 50
       log_cnt = 5

You can of course reduce these to increase the
frequency of log entries during interesting events.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Bill




On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:35 AM, Ehsan Moravveji wrote:

>
> Dear MESA users,
> Hi. I'm Ehsan, and quite new to MESA.
> I remember to read somewhere either in the manual, or the webpage  
> that it
> supports parallel computing. However, I do not remember how to  
> activate
> this option.
> Anyone to help me with that?
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Moravveji, Ehsan.
> Ph.D student of Astrophysics.
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