Setup Your Jetson Thor Dev Kit

About the setup

Ubuntu laptop

At the GTC DLI workshop, you seat on a table where you have direct access to an Ubuntu laptop.
This is your client PC, and we use this laptop only for:

• a terminal to SSH into Jetson
• a web browser to access web UI of server running on Jetson

Jetson AXG Thor Developer Kit

Your Jetson AXG Thor Developer Kit is stored in the mobile server rack placed in the same workshop room, and is accessed from your Ubuntu laptop via Ethernet.

Each Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit comes pre set up with the latest BSP (Jetson Linux / L4T r38.4.0) , Docker containers image and model data pre-downloaded.

⚠️ Attention

When you are typing a command in the console, be sure to make a distinction between a terminal on your client PC and the Jetson terminal.

Client PC (Ubuntu laptop)	Jetson Thor

🔍 Step 1: Find Your IP Address

We will hand out a note with the IP address of a Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit that is assigned to you.

Find your Jetson’s IP address.

export JETSON_IP=10.100.xxx.xxx
echo $JETSON_IP

🔌 Step 2: Connect via SSH

Open a terminal on your Ubuntu laptop and connect to your Jetson Thor:

ssh jetson@${JETSON_IP}

Replace YOUR_IP_ADDRESS with the IP from your note card.

Example

# Connect to your Thor
ssh jetson@10.100.123.45

# Enter password when prompted: `jetson`

✅ Step 3: Verify Connection

Once connected, verify you’re on a Jetson Thor:

# Check device info
cat /etc/nv_tegra_release

# Check GPU status
nvidia-smi

You should see information about the Blackwell GPU and L4T revision.

You’re Ready! Your Jetson Thor is connected. Continue to Lab 1 to start running LLMs and VLMs.