KIOXIA JOINS HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE SERVERS ON SPACE LAUNCH DESTINED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

 

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HPE Spaceborne Computer-2, Features KIOXIA Value SAS, Enterprise SAS and NVMe SSDs, Enables Scientific Experiments with Over 130 TB of Data Storage Capacity

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan 31 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, KIOXIA SSDs took flight with the launch of the NG-20 mission rocket, which is delivering an updated HPE Spaceborne Computer-2, based on HPE EdgeLine and ProLiant servers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), to the International Space Station (ISS). KIOXIA SSDs provide robust flash storage in HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 to conduct scientific experiments aboard the space station.
 

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HPE Spaceborne Computer-2, based on commercial off-the-shelf technology, provides edge computing and AI capabilities on board the research outpost as part of a greater mission to significantly advance computing power in space and reduce dependency on communications as space exploration continues to expand. Designed to perform various high-performance computing (HPC) workloads in space, including real-time image processing, deep learning, and scientific simulations, HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 can be used to compute a number of experiment types including healthcare, natural disaster recovery, 3D printing, 5G, AI, and more.

As the data storage provider for the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2, Kioxia has provided flash memory-based SSDs, including KIOXIA RM Series value SAS, PM Series enterprise SAS and XG Series NVMe^TM SSDs, to enable these advancements. In addition to eight 1,024 gigabyte (GB) NVMe and four 960 GB value SAS SSDs, each of the four enterprise SAS SSDs provided by Kioxia have a capacity of 30.72 terabytes (TB) for a total of more than 130 TB - the most data storage to travel to the space station on a single mission. ^[1] 

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