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18 <p>A free and open source platform for big data science</p>
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30 <p><strong>What is Arvados</strong>
31 <p><a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados</a> is a platform for managing compute and storage for cloud and HPC clusters. It allows you to track your methods and datasets, share them securely, and easily re-run analyses. It also make it possible to run analysis across multiple clusters (HPC, cloud, or hybrid) with <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/user/cwl/federated-workflows.html">Federated Multi-Cluster Workflows</a>.
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35 <p><strong>Support and Community</strong></p>
37 <p>Interact with the Arvados community on the <a href="https://forum.arvados.org">Arvados Forum</a>
38 and the <a href="https://gitter.im/arvados/community">arvados/community</a> channel at gitter.im.
41 <p>Curii Corporation provides managed Arvados installations as well as commercial support for Arvados. Please contact <a href="mailto:info@curii.com">info@curii.com</a> for more information.</p>
43 <p><strong>Contributing</strong></p>
44 <p>Please visit the <a href="https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Wiki#Contributing-and-hacking">developer site</a>. Arvados is 100% free and open source software, check out the code on <a href="https://github.com/arvados/arvados">github</a>.
46 <p>Arvados is under active development, see the <a href="https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/activity">recent developer activity</a>.
48 <p><strong>License</strong></p>
49 <p>Most of Arvados is licensed under the <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/agpl-3.0.html">GNU AGPL v3</a>. The SDKs are licensed under the <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache License 2.0</a> and can be incorporated into proprietary code. See <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/copying.html">Arvados Free Software Licenses</a> for more information.
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57 <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/index.html">User Guide</a> — How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.
60 <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/sdk/index.html">SDK Reference</a> — Details about the accessing Arvados from various programming languages.
63 <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/architecture/index.html">Arvados Architecture</a> — Details about the the Arvados components and architecture.
66 <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/api/index.html">API Reference</a> — Details about the the Arvados REST API.
69 <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/admin/index.html">Admin Guide</a> — Details about administering an Arvados cluster.
72 <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/install/index.html">Install Guide</a> — How to install Arvados.
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