The United States-based $1.3 billion computing and visualisation solutions provider Silicon Graphics Inc is planning to increase its R&D outsourcing from India, a senior company executive said on Tuesday.

"We are open to outsource all kinds of jobs -- low as well as high-end from India. We have to learn how to work with the Indian companies in this process. Today, we are in this learning phase. I am optimistic that we will be able to do more than this," Warren Pratt, executive vice-president and COO of SGI, told PTI on the sidelines of a product launch in New Delhi.

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SGI is investing in some R&D projects in India. The company has a wholly-owned software company, Alias, which specialises in 3-D modelling, animation, entertainment as well as industrial designing and styling space, he said.

"Our development team in Bangalore is working in partnership with an Indian company, which has been working as part of the Alias design team for quite some time," Pratt said.

He, however, did not divulge the name of the Bangalore based company and the number of people working there, adding there was one employee from SGI and the remaining team members were from the partner company.

It is in the order of 20 per cent of R&D work of the particular company at present and this has been extremely successful in the timeliness of the development work. We have recently piloted some smaller engagements with the Indian companies relating to hardware development to the R&D team in Bangalore, he said.

SGI's R&D centres are in US, Israel, Australia, Switzerland and it has developers in United Kingdom and India.