[Mesa-users] Giving MESA parameters from the command line

[Francis Timmes]

also maybe checkout the collected guidance on running many mesa models on a cluster at 

http://cococubed.asu.edu/mesa_market/guides.html


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> On Jan 28, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Adam Jermyn via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> You can write a wrapper script to start up MESA runs with specific parameters. I usually make a ‘prototype’ MESA directory with inlists containing the parameters I’ll be changing. In the prototype directory I  set those to some placeholder like <<MASS>>. At runtime I copy the prototype directory and then use sed to replace each placeholder with the value I want.
> 
> If you want to get output directly from MESA without going through the history/profile files you can always add write statements to your run_star_extras.f. When I do this I usually add an identifiable string before the output so that I can easily search for the lines I need.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> -Adam
> On Jan 28, 2020, 1:45 PM -0500, Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at hawaii.edu>, wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> I am planning on using MESA as part of an MCMC chain and will likely have 100+ instances running in parallel.
>> 
>> It would be a great help if it were possible to 
>> 
>> 1) Give MESA parameters form the command line rather than altering an inlist and
>> 2) Having MESA spit out one or two outputs that I need (I only need three or four quantities from the first time step)
>> 
>> Has anyone had any experience with this before? Is this possible or do I need to generate a bunch of inlists?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Jeremy
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