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

[Adam Jermyn]

Yep! If you run MESA using python’s subprocess module you can have the terminal output returned as a string. Then you can parse that string to pick out the values you want.

-Adam
On Jan 28, 2020, 2:25 PM -0500, Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at hawaii.edu>, wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > > http://cococubed.asu.edu/mesa_market/guides.html
> > >
> > >
> > > fxt
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> > >
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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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