Finite Element Analysis in Puppy
Posted: Mon 26 Oct 2009, 02:33
Not your everyday use for Puppy Linux, but it is possible to run Salome Meca 2009 on Puppy.
It's taken me awhile to get it going, but I think I've got it working properly. I've created some geometry, meshed it, and have finally managed to get the ASTK component going as well (it's a client server app and operating with a root account threw it some curveballs).
This is a monster app. Puppyites will probably laugh me off the forum when I mention that the expanded size of this program installation is 1.8 Gigabytes!! Yes, folks I've got this little hard drive choker running on /mnt/home in frugals in both 4.1.2 and dpup.
Funny to think of an OS with full productivity apps onboard that's only 5% the size of a program. But there are some very good reasons to use Puppy for this. Speed and ram resources to name 2 very important ones. I don't have a dual proc 64 bit machine with 8 gigs of memory, so this pent 4 with 1 gig will have to do. And it does.
Salome Meca is a monster. But it can do some very sophisticated things, so I'm forging ahead through the absolute most difficult user interfaces I've ever seen to try to get to the cheese at the end of this maze. It doesn't help that much of the most important user docs. are in French, unless of course you are lucky enough to be a French engineer. Wish I was.
Probably not of interest to most folks, But those who have a need for industrial strength FEA will probably understand why even bother.
On the other hand, If your FEA needs are more modest, I can also recommend LISA on Wine. It's tiny by comparison, and a heck of a lot easier to use.
I'll let you know how far I get.
It's taken me awhile to get it going, but I think I've got it working properly. I've created some geometry, meshed it, and have finally managed to get the ASTK component going as well (it's a client server app and operating with a root account threw it some curveballs).
This is a monster app. Puppyites will probably laugh me off the forum when I mention that the expanded size of this program installation is 1.8 Gigabytes!! Yes, folks I've got this little hard drive choker running on /mnt/home in frugals in both 4.1.2 and dpup.
Funny to think of an OS with full productivity apps onboard that's only 5% the size of a program. But there are some very good reasons to use Puppy for this. Speed and ram resources to name 2 very important ones. I don't have a dual proc 64 bit machine with 8 gigs of memory, so this pent 4 with 1 gig will have to do. And it does.
Salome Meca is a monster. But it can do some very sophisticated things, so I'm forging ahead through the absolute most difficult user interfaces I've ever seen to try to get to the cheese at the end of this maze. It doesn't help that much of the most important user docs. are in French, unless of course you are lucky enough to be a French engineer. Wish I was.
Probably not of interest to most folks, But those who have a need for industrial strength FEA will probably understand why even bother.
On the other hand, If your FEA needs are more modest, I can also recommend LISA on Wine. It's tiny by comparison, and a heck of a lot easier to use.
I'll let you know how far I get.