[Mesa-users] New release (9.0) of GYRE

[Richard Townsend]

Hi folks —

I’m pleased to announce a new release (9.0) of the GYRE stellar oscillation code. Among many other improvements, this release brings significant performance improvements yielding ~order of magnitude speed-ups(*).

Details can be found in the release notes at https://github.com/rhdtownsend/gyre/releases/tag/v9.0

GYRE’s full documentation can, as usual, be found at https//gyre.readthedocs.io <http://gyre.readthedocs.io/>.

I’ve had to close the original GYRE Forums, due to repeated DDOS attacks. To report problems, please open a GitHub issue (https://github.com/rhdtownsend/gyre/issues) and to ask general questions, please initiate a GitHub discussion (https://github.com/rhdtownsend/gyre/discussions).

This new release of GYRE will be included in the next public release of MESA.

Best wishes,

Rich

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Rich Townsend • Professor of Astronomy
Astronomy Department • University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phone: 608-262-1752 • E-mail: rhtownsend at wisc.edu

(*) Kudos to Vincent Vanlaer for developing his high-performance open-source StORM oscillation code (https://github.com/VincentVanlaer/StORM) — seeing what’s achievable with careful optimization inspired me to work on getting GYRE to run faster. It’s still not quite as fast as StORM, but the performance gap has now closed to a factor ~2.