[Mesa-users] Switching MESA-r9798 to the newest version r24.3.01

Tue Jul 16 13:26:23 UTC 2024

Hi all,

Thanks for replying to my emails.  I attached the inlist files and
run_star_extras.f90 files in the email. My OMP_NUM_THREADS is 64. Thank you!

Regards,
Rita

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 8:54 PM Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com> wrote:

> hi rita,
>
> thanks for the plot - looks reasonable. i will repeat eb's suggestion to
> post your inlist(s) and any associated run_star_extras, otherwise its
> impossible to offer any suggestions for potentially improving the run time.
> in addition, please give the value of your OMP_NUM_THREADS environment
> variable.
>
> fxt
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 16, 2024, at 1:08 AM, Kit Yu Lau via Mesa-users <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>
> This is the luminosity plot I got for the new version. It takes 1  week to
> get the following resutls:<image.png>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:29 AM Ebraheem Farag <ekfarag at asu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello Kit,
>>
>> Please share your inlists or some sort of output comparison (perhaps
>> attach txt files of the terminal output from both of your runs or the logs
>> or a pgstar) if you want comment. It's nearly impossible to speculate
>> otherwise except to say that the current version of MESA is much more
>> careful  in a variety of respects and takes extra solver iterations to
>> ensure good numerical convergence with respect to previous versions
>> including the use energy conservation to maintain numerical accuracy
>> (something not done in mesa-r9798). Much of this is documented in MESA IV
>> <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJS..234...34P/abstract> and MESA
>> V <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJS..243...10P/abstract>.
>>
>> -EbF
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 6:40 AM Kit Yu Lau via Mesa-users <
>> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I used the most updated version of mesa to run X-ray bursts. Comparing
>>> with the old version (mesa-r9798) . It is much slower. I spent 10 days for
>>> the new version to get 2 bursts but the old version I spent 3 days to get 5
>>> bursts. All the input files are the same for both versions. Is there any
>>> way to speed up the new version? Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rita Lau
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 1:48 PM Frank Timmes <fxtimmes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi rita,
>>>>
>>>> mesa has always used an evolving patchwork of eos modules to cover the
>>>> rho-t plane. this eos patchwork for recent versions is shown in figure
>>>> 7 of section 4 in mesa vi (jermyn et al 2023), also described at
>>>> https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.06.1-rc1/eos/overview.html
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.06.1-rc1/eos/overview.html__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!YEDGoBxIue5Bt2R-BRTkPSG-6fl2vcTcqMub_4ovLO-Q0TQt9hld6JxESGO8MaIX13vdzJfkkDBMN5Tyzs2O_6pMof9Osw$> with
>>>> inlist controls at
>>>> https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.06.1-rc1/eos/defaults.html#eos-module-controls
>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.06.1-rc1/eos/defaults.html*eos-module-controls__;Iw!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!YEDGoBxIue5Bt2R-BRTkPSG-6fl2vcTcqMub_4ovLO-Q0TQt9hld6JxESGO8MaIX13vdzJfkkDBMN5Tyzs2O_6qY4lMFmA$> . the
>>>> current eos patchwork cannot be easily changed to the eos patchwork used in
>>>> 2017 for r9798.
>>>>
>>>> fxt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 17, 2024, at 11:23 PM, Kit Yu Lau via Mesa-users <
>>>> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I was using mesa-r9798 and I am switching to the newest version.
>>>> However, there was no eos in mesa-r9798. I think I was using helm_table.dat
>>>> for the old version. How do I change the newest version to use the same
>>>> eos? I tried not to command anything in eos and it seems that it is using
>>>> eos_free. How do I change the eos to helm_table.dat? Thank you very much.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Rita
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