Talks from the MESA Summer School Aug 22 2012, 12:35

I've recently returned from the inaugural MESA Summer School, where I presented a couple of lectures and labs on the pulsation and asteroseismology capabilities within the MESA stellar evolution code. The presentation materials (slides, PDFs, etc.) are hosted on a newly-created 'Talks' section on mad star; when I get around to it, I plan to upload the media from other talks I've given.

EZ-Web back up; blame the MESA SDK development Aug 20 2012, 16:18

It seems EZ-Web broke recently, due to my messing around with libraries on the server machine as part of the ongoing MESA SDK development. I've fixed this now, and hopefully avoided any future incidents by making stand-alone copies of the libraries. (I tried using the excellent statifier tool, which converts dynamic ELF executables into static ones; but it segfaults on the server. Bah!)

The MESA SDK gets a facelift Jul 27 2012, 16:35

It's been quite a while since I updated the MESA SDK, and even longer since I made any significant new additions to mad star. Hopefully, today marks the end of this extended hiatus — I've release a new version (20120727) of the SDK with extensive improvements, and my plan is to get back to (at least) weekly updates of the website.

The MESA SDK now supports 32-bit Linux Nov 25 2011, 13:26

After a fair bit of feedback from users, I've updated the MESA SDK to support 32-bit Linux. This means that the most commonly-used platforms are all now covered.

Also, mad star is now the primary distribution site for the SDK. This is because the update cycles of MESA and the SDK are driven by different considerations, and it doesn't make too much sense to bundle the two together.