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Siemens Slams The Door Shut On Promising Open-Source Radioss Project

As a major disappointment to the open-source community, Siemens has decided to end -- and close-up access -- to the OpenRadioss project as the open-source version opened up by Altair Engineering under the GNU AGPL License back in 2022. This was an open-source version of the industry-leading finite element solver that Altair developed. Siemens acquired Altair Engineering last year and have now…

Siemens has recently announced the end of the OpenRadioss project, which had been a promising open-source Radioss initiative. The company is shifting its focus to Simcenter Radioss and the Radioss R&D program. These new offerings aim to cater to both production engineering and advanced research activities. The OpenRadioss website is being retired, and users are being redirected to Siemens' transition page.

The announcement comes after four years of successful community-driven research. Siemens is now entering a new chapter for the Radioss solver, with the company consolidating its efforts to accelerate innovation and provide robust support for production-grade simulation. Michael Larabel, a leading author of Phoronix.com and the founder of the site in 2004, expressed his support for the transition.

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