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Washington: The International Space Station is expected to get its first supercomputer next week.Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said on Friday that it will launch a supercomputer into space on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft next Monday, as part of a joint experiment with the US space agency NASA, Xinhua reported. The system, called the Spaceborne Computer, is designed to last for a year, which the company said is roughly the amount of time it will take to travel to Mars. "A mission to Mars will require sophisticated on-board computing resources that are capable of extended periods of uptime," Alain Andreoil, senior vice president…