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

[Jeremy Sakstein]

Thanks everyone.

If I do go the run_star_extras route and print the values to the screen. Is
it possible for python to pick these directly out as returned values for
further processing?

Cheers,

Jeremy

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:56 AM Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com> wrote:

> also maybe checkout the collected guidance on running many mesa models on
> a cluster at
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> 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:
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> > Hi Jeremy,
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> > 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.
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> > 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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