By moving Surpac to the cloud, Smithson Mining was able to access the software from anywhere, at any time. No longer were they limited by their on-premises infrastructure or dependent on IT staff to manage updates and maintenance. The cloud-based solution provided them with:
The benefits of Surpac on the cloud were almost immediate: surpac on the cloud
The Smithson Mining Company was now able to focus on what mattered most – extracting valuable resources from the earth efficiently and safely. With Surpac on the cloud, they had achieved a new level of operational efficiency, and their team was empowered to make better decisions, faster. By moving Surpac to the cloud, Smithson Mining
| Model | Description | Example | |-------|-------------|---------| | | Surpac installed on a cloud VM (Windows Server/10) with GPU acceleration. | AWS EC2 G4dn, Azure NVv4 | | DaaS (Virtual Desktop) | Fully managed desktop, Surpac pre-installed, accessible via browser. | Windows 365, Amazon WorkSpaces | | HPC Batch | Headless Surpac scripts run on high-core count VMs for resource estimation. | AWS ParallelCluster, Azure Batch | | Containerized (Experimental) | Surpac functions containerized (requires license server containerization). | Docker + GPU passthrough | With Surpac on the cloud, they had achieved
Running Surpac on the cloud is not only technically viable but operationally superior for geographically distributed mining teams. The shift from local workstations to GPU-accelerated cloud VMs eliminates hardware bottlenecks, enables elastic compute for resource estimation, and centralizes data governance. Challenges—graphics latency, license management, and egress costs—are manageable with proper architecture (NICE DCV, cloud FLEXlm, spot instances). As Hexagon evolves licensing and cloud-native features, Surpac on the cloud will become the default for agile mining operations.