Deploying Hexagon’s Surpac on Cloud Infrastructure: A Paradigm Shift in Mine Planning and Geospatial Collaboration

| 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 |