Having proved Golden's hunch correct, BP then leapfrogged Shell and its other competitors and went farther out into the Gulf, into zones where conventional seismic analysis couldn't actually detect whether there was oil in the ground.

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Huang is now turning his focus beyond gamers to a host of new customers that will need number-crunching power: oil companies doing deep-sea seismic analysis, Wall Street banks modeling portfolio risk and biologists visualizing molecular structures to find drug target sites.

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