Phoronix’s Michael Larabel reports that Siemens has ended OpenRadioss, the GNU AGPL-licensed finite element solver Altair opened up in 2022, retiring the project website and removing the GitHub repository outright instead of archiving it. Siemens frames the change as consolidating Radioss work into its commercial Simcenter portfolio after four years of community-driven research, pointing users to paid Simcenter Radioss and a managed Simcenter Radioss R&D program, which Larabel calls a major disappointment for open-source technical computing and for CPU benchmarking that relied on the freely available solver.
Siemens Slams The Door Shut On Promising Open-Source Radioss Project
Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports that Siemens has ended OpenRadioss, the GNU AGPL-licensed finite element solver Altair opened up in 2022, retiring the project website and removing the GitHub repository outright instead of archiving it. Siemens frames the change as consolidating Radioss work into its commercial Simcenter portfolio after four years of community-driven research, pointing users to paid Simcenter Radioss and a managed Simcenter Radioss R&D program, which Larabel calls a major disappointment for open-source technical computing and for CPU benchmarking that relied on the freely available solver.
Source: Phoronix