MESAHub / MESAHub/mesa

Repackage EOS tables into HDF5

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enhancement eos
Dominant language
Fortran
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249
Forks
82
Avg merge
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Description

Rather than unpacking the EOS 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

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Begin by locating the EOS table unpacking, .bin caching, and table-reading paths, then define the HDF5 representation and update the relevant consumers; done means the tables use less space and I/O is faster without breaking EOS access.

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Assessment

Tech stack
fortran
Domain
data, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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