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Why was oil and gas a target for sales for them? I'm sure the industry has a ton of money, but back then what was the use case?

• mark-r 5y ago
  Same reason high-powered graphics boards are used today for cryptocurrency - high throughput calculations.
• gumby 5y ago
  They do a lot of seismic work to see what's underground (set off explosions, map the results) and need to crunch and visualize a lot of data.