As part of the effective deployment of its numerical simulation platform, SALOME-Meca, to the trades of electricity production, EDF just bought a hundred licences of MeshGems, a DISTENE product. DISTENE is a company "born from INRIA", and is a leading provider of meshing components addressing the market of CAD/CAE developers. This acquisition is the result of a collaboration between DISTENE and EDF, initiated by the IOLS collaborative project (infrastructure and software tools for simulation), of the SYSTEM@TIC Paris-Region French pole of competitiveness.

"Thanks to the IOLS project, we worked closely with EDF on their 3D simulation issues, and we are proud that we are now able to offer them an efficient meshing solution which contributes to the industrial deployment of the SALOME 2 platform", says Mark Loriot, President and CEO of DISTENE. "Beyond the IOLS project, this common investment for the development of innovative solutions will continue with the EHPOC project (Environment for High Performance Optimisation and Conception), and will help DISTENE to recruit new engineers, and ultimately to accelerate its development and strength in a highly competitive international market".
Mark Loriot adds: "The work on parallel meshing, driven by EDF, is an opportunity for DISTENE to anticipate the future and to make a significant progress on mesh generation technologies addressing multicore architectures, which are to be tomorrow's hardware architectures"