Elmer binaries are available for a number of platforms. With the exception of Windows it is recommended that the binaries are compiled from the sources to obtain the latest features and optimal performance. Here are the compiling instructions. For ElmerGUI look at the instructions in the elmergui directory of the source code.

Windows installers

A rather fresh Elmer binary installation is available in new Windows installers from sourceforge:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/elmerfem/

It includes also the new ElmerGUI with VTK based visualization, OpenCascade library for CAD import and improved interface for netgen mesh generator. Note that there are There are both serial and parallel Windows installers available.

• Elmer-svn*_nompi (no parallel features included)
• Elmer-svn*_mpich2 (parallel features included)

If you do not intend to use parallel features choose the nompi version. The parallel package depends on the MPICH2 runtime environment v. 1.0.7, which must be installed and configured on the system. More details can be found from the release notes at sourceforge.

Binaries on other platforms

Elmer is kindly provided in a number of 3rd part distributions. Some of these are not quite up to date. The known distributions are listed under Links / 3rd party Elmer distributions.