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About PRESCIENT

Platform for RESearCh on Intelligence and Edge-enabled Next-generation Telecommunications (PRESCIENT) is a network and compute testbed at The Ohio State University, for supporting research focused on AI and networking. The testbed is equipped with GPU-dense compute resources, NI Ettus USRPs, and mobile user equipment (UE) modules, enabling researchers and students to deploy, test, and integrate their research artifacts in a lab-scale 5/NextG RAN environment.

Capability

  • GPU compute cluster — interactive and batch access to discrete GPUs via SLURM, with rootless container support (Enroot + Pyxis) for reproducible software environments.
  • Access to programmamble SDRs — SDRs that can be used as base stations or UEs
  • Kubernetes — Schedule containerized workloads across the testbed's compute nodes

Architecture

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Users

  • Researchers requiring GPU-acceleration for networking experiments
  • Students at the OSU working on 5G courses offered by CSE
  • External collaborators

If you fit one of those, see Getting Started.