4 [Arvados](https://arvados.org) is a free software distributed computing platform
5 for bioinformatics, data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data
6 sets. Arvados supports a variety of cloud, cluster and HPC environments.
10 * *Keep*: a petabyte-scale content-addressed distributed storage system for managing and
11 storing collections of files, accessible via HTTP and FUSE mount.
13 * *Crunch*: a Docker-based workflow engine designed providing strong
14 versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations.
16 * Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
17 and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
21 To try out Arvados quickly, you can use Arvbox, which provides Arvados
22 components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires Docker 1.9+). After
23 cloning the Arvados git repository:
26 $ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
27 $ ./arvbox start localdemo
30 See http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details and documentation.
34 Complete documentation, including a User Guide, Installation documentation and
35 API documentation is available at http://doc.arvados.org/
37 If you wish to build the Arvados documentation from a local git clone, see
38 doc/README.textile for instructions.
42 The [#arvados](irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados IRC) (Internet Relay Chat)
44 [Open and Free Technology Community (irc.oftc.net)](http://www.oftc.net/oftc/)
45 is available for live discussion and support. You can use a traditional IRC
46 client or [join OFTC over the web.](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=arvados)
49 [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
50 is a forum for general discussion, questions, and news about Arvados
52 [Arvados developer mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados-dev)
53 is a forum for more technical discussion, intended for developers and
54 contributers to Arvados.
58 [![Build Status](https://ci.curoverse.com/buildStatus/icon?job=arvados-api-server)](https://ci.curoverse.com/job/arvados-api-server/)
60 The Arvados public bug tracker is located at https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
62 Continuous integration is hosted at https://ci.curoverse.com/
66 Arvados is Free Software. See COPYING for information about Arvados Free