Major software house Century Research Centre, CRC, and Asahi Techno Computer will launch a molecular orbit analysis software package called Spartan, developed jointly by the Universities of California and Illinois: Spartan includes pre- and post-processors and equation solving routines, and CRC will sell a version on the Silicon Graphics Iris 4D workstation, while Asahi Techno will sell it on the Titan 2000 box from Stardent Computer.