SALOME is free software

Free software

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 that provides a generic platform for Pre- and Post-Processing for numerical simulation. It is based on an open and flexible architecture made of reusable components. It is open source

Open source

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, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License

GNU Lesser General Public License

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, and both its source code and executables may be downloaded from its official website.

Features

• Supports interoperability between CAD modeling and computation software (CAD-CAE
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   link).
• Makes easier the integration of new components on heterogeneous systems for numerical computation.
• Sets the priority to multi-physics coupling between computation software.
• Provides a generic user interface, user-friendly and efficient, which helps to reduce the costs and delays of carrying out the studies.
• Reduces training time to the specific time for learning the software solution which has been based on this platform .
• All functionalities are accessible through the programmatic integrated Python
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   console.

Software can be downloaded for several Linux

Linux

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 platforms (Debian

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, Mandriva

Mandriva Linux

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, Fedora

Fedora (operating system)

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, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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 and Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux

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). But the source code is also available to any programmer who wishes to develop and make it available for other platforms. The Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 porting is also proposed (only sources).

"Universal" binaries are also provided for 32 and 64 bits linux distributions as tgz archive files. Those binaries can be run "as is", no need to recompile the sources (only Python

Python (programming language)

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and the standard X11 graphical libraries must be installed).

External links

• Official website