Table of Contents

  1. Download
    1.1 Go to your scratch space
    1.2 Download MESA
    1.3 Download & untar the SDK
  2. Edit your .bashrc
  3. Compile MESA
    3.1 Compile the main program
    3.2 Make your work directory
  4. Run MESA
    4.1 Make a batch file
    4.2 Submit

1. Download

1.1 Go to your scratch space

cd /clusterfs/henyey/<username>

1.2 Download MESA

svn co -r 4631 http://mesa.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mesa/trunk mesa

1.3 Download & untar the SDK

wget --user-agent="" http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/resource/download/mesasdk/mesasdk-x86_64-linux-20121106.tar.gz
tar xf mesasdk-x86_64-linux-20121106.tar.gz

2. Edit your .bashrc

export SCRATCH="/clusterfs/henyey/jwschwab/"

# for MESA
export MESA_DIR=$SCRATCH/mesa
export MESASDK_ROOT=$SCRATCH/mesasdk
source $MESASDK_ROOT/bin/mesasdk_init.sh

3. Compile MESA

3.1 Compile the main program

Make sure to either source your .bashrc or log out and back in. Now running the ./install command should work.

3.2 Make your work directory

As usual, make a copy of the work directory. Since you may need a decent amount of space for the logs, this should probably live on your scratch space. Once you have that set up the way you normally would (run ./mk, set up your inlist, etc).

4. Run MESA

4.1 Make a batch file

On one of these clusters, the way you run a job is by submitting one to the batch queue system. There’s specific info about this on the Henyey bSpace page. In general, you need a batch file that describes the job you want to run. My MESA ones look like this:

#!/bin/bash
#PBS -N MESA
#PBS -M <email_address>
#PBS -m abe
#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=8,walltime=10:00:00
#PBS -q henyey_batch
#PBS -V
#
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR

#
# this should be equal to the value of ppn
# there are 8 cores on each henyey node
#

export OMP_NUM_THREADS=8

./rn > rn.out

Things that you might want to adjust are the job name (-N) and the job time limit (walltime). The -m & -M flags have the system send you email when your jobs start/stop. And then of course, you may want to do something different with your ./rn command, etc.

4.2 Submit

Supposing you named your batch file runmesa.sh then:

qsub runmesa.sh

Then you can see where you are in the queue by typing:

qstat