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History

Where does SALOME come from?

SALOME was born in the year 2000 from two industrial needs:

  • Find a multi-physics solution:
    • Increase efficiency (Construction of the data files)
    • Facilitate the multi-physics coupling (Diagram of calculation)
    • Simplify the access for user (unique and homogeneous environment)

  • Facilitate integration of specific calculation solutions within the PLM:
    • Pre/Post processor efficiency
    • Interoperable numerical simulation code
    • Data simulation in the PDM system

SALOME 1.0

Under the leadership of OPEN CASCADE, at that time an EADS MATRA DATAVISION company, the first RNTL project

(SALOME 1) started in September 2000 and continued for 2 years, involving nine partners operating in different sectors:

  • Large companies:
    • EDF R&D
    • BUREAU VERITAS (Naval Certification)

  • Small & medium-size companies:
    • OPEN CASCADE (Services)
    • PRINCIPIA R&D (Digital Simulation)
    • CEDRAT (Electromagnetism)

  • Private Laboratories:
      EADS CCR (Joint Research Center)

  • Public Laboratories:
    • CEA
    • LIP6 (UPMC - Laboratory of Data Processing of Paris 6)
    • LEG (Laboratory of Electrical Engineering of Grenoble

 
  • Target platform
    • Linux Red Hat 7.0
  • Used products & technologies
    • Qt 2.3
    • CAS.CADE 4.0
    • Python 2.1
    • omniORB 3.0.5
    • VTK 4.2.0
    • HDF5 1.4.1
    • Med 2.1.6
  • Release

    • December 2001

ALLIANCES

  • Partners
    • CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique)
    • ANDRA (Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs )
    • EDF R&D (Electricité de France)
    • OPEN CASCADE
  • Goal
    • Provide a working environment for the simulation and analysis of phenomena to be taken into account for waste storage and disposal studies
  • Based on SALOME 1.x (latest version 1.4 issued in the end of 2003)

SALOME 2.x

  • Started in the beginning of 2004
  • First public release : Version 2.0  (July, 2004)
  • 8 of 9 initial SALOME partners and 13 new partners
  • Main objective : complete and improve SALOME platform
  • RNTL labeled
  • Platforms:
    • Red Hat 8.0
    • Red Hat 9
    • Mandrake 10.1
    • Scientific Linux 3.0.5
  • Products
    • CAS.CADE 5.2
    • Boost 1.30.2
    • HDF5 1.6.3
    • Med 2.2.2
    • omniORB 4.0.5
    • Qt 3.3.3
    • SWIG 1.3.24
  • Latest public release : 2.2.8  (January 2006)

SALOME 3.x

  • Started in 2005
  • First public release : 3.2.1 (July 2006)
  • Most important features:
    • New and completely redesigned GUI framework
      • Extracted from KERNEL module
      • Modern look-n-feel
      • Clear and safe GUI programming model
      • Multi-desktop approach
      • Tabbed viewers and dockable windows concepts
    • Dump Python functionality
    • Polygonal/polyhedral mesh elements and quadratic meshes support
    • Improved ergonomic of meshing GUI
    • New viewer of fields in gauss points
    • Light SALOME modules (without CORBA) availability
    • Redesigned documentation
  • Latest public release : 3.2.6 (May 2007)

SALOME 4.x

  • Started in 2007
  • First public release : 4.1.4 (December 2008)
  • Most important features:
    • New Installation procedure
    • New modules: FILTER, MULTIPR
    • New meshing plug-ins: BLSURF, GHS3DPRL, Hexotic
    • New Supervision module (YACS)
    • A lot of improvements in Geometry, Mesh and Post-processing modules
    • Redesigned documentation
  • Latest public release : 4.1.5 (July 2009)

SALOME 5.x

  • Started in 2008
  • First public release : 5.1.1 (March 2009)
  • Most important features:
    • Porting to Qt 4
    • Win32 compatibility
    • A lot of improvements in Geometry, Mesh and Post-processing modules
    • Redesigned documentation
    • Etc…

 

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