[mesa-users] MESA in education -- where's the website for this?

[Willie Strickland]

Excellent!  Thanks for the update.

Willie

> On Oct 26, 2015, at 12:06, Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> The problem my professor, myself and other classmates have found is that
>> mesa-web never makes it to helium burning.
> 
> 
> partially in response to this thread and partially due to 
> the volume of jobs submitted to mesa-web.asu.edu, we have
> 
> 1) doubled the core count to four. each job will now run on 2 cores.
> 
> 2) doubled the allowed run time to 1 hour or until the end of
>   core oxygen burning, whichever comes first.
> 
> 3) exposed additional physical model parameters, but more importantly, 
>   we have exposed a few of mesa’s spatial and temporal resolution parameters.
>   rather than us fixing the spacetime resolution, you get to choose!
>   this allow sstudents to explore the convergence and meaning of their models.
> 
> to answer the question, its now possible to run a 1 msun model from 
> pre main-sequence to white dwarf in under an hour on mesa-web.asu.edu 
> for suitable parameter choices.
> 
> to reiterate bill’s point: one can always make a model complex enough that 
> it will not reach the desired evolutionary point on mesa-web’s (free) resources! 
> 
> Frank and Carl
> 
> 
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