On: The Real Story of Pixar

[edge17]

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?

[gumby → edge17]

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.

[mark-r → edge17]

Same reason high-powered graphics boards are used today for cryptocurrency - high throughput calculations.