MESAHub / MESAHub/mesa

Repackage kap tables into HDF5

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enhancement kap
Dominant language
Fortran
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249
Forks
82
Avg merge
1d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

Rather than unpacking the opacity data into lots of bloated plain text files, and then further bloating by caching them as `.bin` files, we can restructure these as hdf5 files to save a lot of space and speed up i/o.

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Research direction

Start by locating the current opacity-data unpacking and .bin caching workflow in the repository. Determine how the kap tables are produced and consumed, then define completion as replacing the bloated text and cache representation with HDF5 files that reduce storage and improve I/O.

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Assessment

Tech stack
fortran
Domain
data
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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