Athena is an academic computing environment provided to the MIT community in the form of remote access servers (known as the “dialups”), a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and Pharos, a hold-and-release service for printers distributed across campus.
Available To
Students, Faculty, Staff, Affiliates
Benefits and key features
- Kerberos authentication and OpenAFS
- Access to MIT ‘lockers’ and your Athena home directory on the AFS filesystem
- Access to a collection of common utilities and MIT-licensed software
- Centrally-managed printers
The Athena Dialups service (athena.dialup.mit.edu) provides all MIT community members with access via a secure shell on one of a pool of servers running Ubuntu (currently 22.04 LTS).
Note: MIT's Athena Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (vdi.mit.edu) is undergoing maintenance and will be unavailable until further notice.
Requirements
- MIT Kerberos user account
- Connection via MITnet on campus or via the MIT remote access VPN
Getting started
- Get started with Athena in the Knowledge Base
- Access the Athena dialups
- Use Pharos printing