Ardent Computer Corp, Sunnyvale, California, soon to be Stardent Inc from somewhere between the two coasts, has signed a joint marketing pact with MacNeil-Schwendler Corp for the adaptation of the MSC/Nastran finite-element analysis software to run on Ardent’s Titan graphics minisupercomputer: it will be available by the end of the year to run on the current Titans, as well as the new generation of Titan systems planned for this autumn, and joins the 50 plus third party packages now up on the machines.