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SALOME
Open-source platform for simulation pre- and post-processing
★ Starsn/aSplit across several repositories
Last commit29 Sept 2026
LicenceLGPL-2.1SPDX, from the repository
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From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026. SALOME is split across many repositories under github.com/SalomePlatform; the last commit shown is for the KERNEL module, and no single star count applies.
SALOME provides CAD import and modelling, meshing, solver coupling and visualisation for numerical simulation. It is developed by EDF and CEA and pairs with code_aster as salome_meca.
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