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Actually, the news for me is that Oil & Gas exploration still has needs for computing that's considered significant today.

Basically, I can see that they needed super computers in the 80s. But I might have assumed that their computing needs wouldn't keep scaling with supply. So that by now, just renting some GPUs from Amazon might be enough.

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A former employer of mine had lots of oil companies as clients for their CFD software...for most of the problem sets, the memory use was in the TBs, and it's tough to get a GPU with more than 16-24GB of onboard RAM.