PARIS, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The goal of the RNTL (French National Network for Research and Innovation in Technological Software) is to encourage exchange internally, within the organization, and externally, with other research and industrial networks. The current two-day colloquium at Toulouse will enable all participants to present and discuss results and technology transfers stemming from the 120 projects launched since the creation of the RNTL in 2000.

Open CASCADE takes part in this event and will present the results of the SALOME project. SALOME is a CAD-to-FEM integration platform based on open- source software and is used in the production of pre- and postprocessors for numerical simulation. The project will be featured in the "Numerical Simulation" workshop on October 24th at nine a.m.

During the afternoon, SALOME project members and other colloquium attendees will join together for the first gathering of the SALOME Club. This will be a unique occasion to meet with the 21 SALOME partners, representing industry, research and software edition, and to see demonstrations of the applications derived from the SALOME platform.

Open CASCADE S.A.

Open CASCADE S.A. is a software services company that proposes trade-specific solutions and integration of numerical simulation software for its industrial customers in Europe, Asia and North America. Open CASCADE provides turnkey application development and a broad range of services based on an innovative open-source approach. These services include consulting, technical assistance, training and project expertise and aim to bring about the optimal implementation of the user's development project.

Open CASCADE relies on an international team of highly skilled engineers with proven competence in many technical software development areas: data modeling for numerical simulation, 3D visualization, software architecture, CAD data exchange, multi-OS programming, application data strategy, user interface, CAD, graphical visualization, 3D geometric modeling, software engineering and project management. Open CASCADE provides thorough competence in modern development technologies, such as Qt, Java, C++, JSP, PYTHON, CORBA, XML, VTK, UML, TCL, FORTRAN, PHP, SWIG.

Open CASCADE customers include important industrial companies, software editors and research organisms, such as Alcatel Space (space systems), BMW (automotive), Bureau Veritas and RINA (shipbuilding), CEA (nuclear), EADS (aerospace), Mitutoyo (co-ordinate measuring machines) and Usinor (steel).

Open CASCADE aims to become the platform of reference among industrialists for the integration of numerical simulation solutions within the company software system. The Open CASCADE components can be downloaded at: http://www.opencascade.com/products/occ/.

The Open CASCADE company is a subsidiary of EADS Matra Datavision.