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What is Hynesim?

Hynesim is a distributed open source information systems simulation platform written in C++ using the Qt4 framework.

Indeed that's quite a mouthful, let's break it down:

"Open source" is easy: Hynesim is released under the GPL v3.0, which means the source is free for everyone to grab and modify.
What we call an "information system" is a network of machines that provide services to their users, such as your company's intranet. Hynesim is a bundle of software to design, create and run a distributed simulation of such a system.
It's "distributed" because running simulations of large information systems requires computing power, so you can provide as many Hynesim nodes as you need, the load will be balanced between them.
It's a "simulation" because everything runs inside Hynesim, giving you the possibility of pausing, saving and loading simulations. And because Hynesim is more than one software, we call it a platform.

So there you have it: "open source information systems simulation platform".