Licences can be node-locked, floating from a licence server, or attached to a dongle. Versions of GOCAD Mining Suite are licensed as a standalone product or network modularized software. Several algorithms are optimized for multi-processors and GPU. It provides its own command language (GOCAD CLI) which integrates with both TCL and JavaScript, making it possible for the end users to write and execute custom scripts within the application. GOCAD Mining Suite is an extension of SKUA-GOCAD™- Emerson Paradigm Holding LLC. Paradigm was acquired by Emerson in 2017. GOCAD was commercialized and became the leading commercial product of Earth Decision Sciences, acquired by Paradigm Geophysical in 2006. The GOCAD platform originated from the GOCAD Research Consortium, started in 1989 at the École Nationale Superieure de Geologie (ENSG) in Nancy, France. It was first released in September 1999 under the name Mira Links by Mira Geoscience Limited.
