Disclosed herein is the integration into edge nodes of a telecommunications network system of client computer system and server computer system where the server computer system includes a pool of shareable accelerators and the client computer runs an application program that is assisted by the pool of accelerators. The edge nodes connect to user equipment, and some of the user equipment can themselves act as one of the client computer systems. In some embodiments, the accelerators are GPUs, and in other embodiments, the accelerators are artificial intelligence accelerators.