Salome Environment

Salome is an opensource platform for the simulation. It covers all steps of the scientific pipeline. Salome provides modules for:

  • pre-processsing:

    • CAD: GEOM, SHAPER

    • Mesh: SMESH with additionnal plugins for Gmsh

  • simulation:

    • provide mcan run some solvers,

  • post-processing:

    • View: PARAVIS with openturns support for statistical analyse of the results

This list is not exhaustive. The reader can refer to Salome documentation for more detail.

1. Get Salome

The easiest way to use Salome is to use a docker image:

 $ docker pull trophime/salome:9.11.0-debian11

However, for this course, we will install salome on the TP linux desktops. To proceed:

  • Download version 9.11.0 for Debian 11 from Salome website

  • Open a terminal and run:

 $ tar zxf SALOME-9.11.0.tar.gz
 $cd SALOME-9.11.0

To validate the installation, try to launch salome:

./[mesa-]salome

Run this command from the directory where you have unarchived the binary tarball.

There are officials binaries for Windows on Salome website. There is no port for Mac OS X.

2. References