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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