[CharlesColeman]

Aren't they Big Oil's old favorite toy? In the 90s, a local university near me had a Cray XMP that was a gift from some oil company after they'd decommissioned it.

[52-6F-62]

My grandmother was an analyst for Gulf/Shell going back into the 60s. She was a resident FORTRAN/COBOL expert that was recalled in the 90s after retirement.

Data and systems analysis at scale is definitely not new to them.

[hackcasual]

I'm in software dev, my dad was in geophysics, he's always had a much better work computer than me.

[dang]

Ok, given that and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21531193, and frankly just about all the other comments here, we'll take newness out of the title above. Makes the story more interesting actually.

[baroffoos]

Exactly. I have been hearing about this stuff for ages. Oil companies optimized raping the land decades ago.

[Jordanpomeroy]

If only there were something we could do to stop the world’s oil dependency