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

[Jeremy Sakstein]

Thanks for all your help. I think my output problems are sorted.

On the input side, I really would like to have one directory and not
thousands. Is there anyway to do this in your experience?

Cheers,

Jeremy

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:52 AM Adam Jermyn <adamjermyn at gmail.com> 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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