HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 Returns to the International Space Station
January 30 2024 - 11:26AM
Business Wire
Mission goal is to build on previous success and provide the
international scientific community access to an expanded scope of
space-based edge computing, AI and machine learning
capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced it has sent a
third iteration of the HPE Spaceborne Computer, built from
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers, to the International Space
Station (ISS) via a Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services
mission, contracted by NASA, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The goal of HPE Spaceborne Computer-2’s latest trip is to build
upon the system’s previous success while expanding the scope and
complexity of data center-level processing and high performance
computing (HPC) that can be done in space, including artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads. This
configuration of the award-winningi HPE Spaceborne Computer, based
on HPE Edgeline and ProLiant servers, has been updated with over
130 TB of flash-based storage from KIOXIA, the most storage to ever
travel to the space station on a single mission. This includes four
KIOXIA 960 GB RM Series Value SAS, eight 1,024 GB XG Series NVMe
and four 30.72 TB PM6 Enterprise SAS SSDs. The additional flash
memory storage will make it possible to run new types of
applications and conduct research using larger data setsii through
the ISS National Laboratory.
Improvements to HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 also include an
updated operating system, NASA space flight support software and
new system security. Once on board the space station, the health
and status of these technologies will be monitored daily to assess
the performance in the harsh conditions of space.
Advancing research on Earth and in space
After installation of HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 is completed on
the space station, the system will be used by researchers to
advance innovation and save time. Traditionally, data gathered in
space was collected aboard the research outpost and sent to Earth
for processing. An onboard supercomputer enables data to be
evaluated in low Earth orbit in near-real time, making it possible
to achieve a 30,000 times reduction in download sizeiii by only
transmitting the data output, or insight, to Earth instead,
therefore drastically reducing download times.
Research slated for HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 includes a
federated learning (FL) experiment that will independently train ML
models and inference engines that were originally created on the
Cloud. The experiment will be collaborated on and operated by cloud
service providers with the dual-intent to contribute to ML training
models used on Earth and maintain an up-to-date AI inference engine
in space.
HPE will once again invite the public to submit proposals to
perform experiments on the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 through the
ISS National Laboratory. Additional information about submitting
proposals can be found here.
Additional Resources
- ISS National Lab-Sponsored Experiments Propel Spaceborne
Computer Toward New Frontiers in Space Computing
- HPE Spaceborne Computer program: The incredible journey of a
computer at the farthest edge
- KIOXIA Joins Hewlett Packard Enterprise Servers on Space Launch
Destined for the International Space Station
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__________________ i HPE Spaceborne Computer has been awarded
the NASA Group Achievement Award in March 2023, the NASA Space
Flight Awareness Award in August 2022 for the EVA Glove Inspection
Team, the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal in August
2019, and the ISS R&D Innovation Award for Technology
Development and Demonstration in July 2018. ii Previous workloads,
including DNA sequence data, high resolution imagery and reference
databases, were limited to 2 TBs. iii Based off data collected in
March 2022 for the transmission of 2.8 GBs of life sciences data
that took approximately 18 hours to transmit from the International
Space Station to Earth via the traditional “collect-and-forward”
model, compared to on-board processing via HPE Spaceborne
Computer-2 that resulted in an insight file size of 92 KBs that was
transmitted to Earth in approximately 2 seconds.
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