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Re:The Real Story of Pixar by edge17 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:48PM (#28063243)
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?
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Re:The Real Story of Pixar by gumby on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:22PM (#28065092)
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.
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Re:The Real Story of Pixar by mark-r on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:37PM (#28063872)
Same reason high-powered graphics boards are used today for cryptocurrency - high throughput calculations.
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