Silicon Graphics Inc says it has won contracts totalling $2.4m in the People’s Republic of China. The first is with the China Machinery Industry Computer & Technology Corp. Funded by the World Bank for the Karamay Oilfield, CMICT Corp will use Silicon Graphics’ Iris 4D/220 high-end workstations running DISCO seismic processing software from Cognisis Systems Development Inc, Houston, Texas. The second is with Hong Kong integrator Geotech Ltd, which will supply Iris 4D/25 Turbo workstations and Stratamodel three-dimensional modelling software from Stratamodel Inc, Houston, Texas, to the China National Petroleum Company’s oil exploration sites at Da Qing, Shen Li and Liao He. The last deal is with the Department of Construction Coordination, Ministry of Machinery & Electronics Industries, which will use Iris 4D/210 GTXs to design manufacturing plants using Sonata software from T2 Ltd, Eagle from CARBS Ltd – both UK firms – and Pro-Engineer from Parametric Technology Corp in the US.
