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7 [Arvados](https://arvados.org) is a free software distributed computing platform
8 for bioinformatics, data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data
9 sets. Arvados supports a variety of cloud, cluster and HPC environments.
13 * *Keep*: a petabyte-scale content-addressed distributed storage system for managing and
14 storing collections of files, accessible via a variety of methods including
15 Arvados APIs, WebDAV, and FUSE file system mount.
17 * *Crunch*: a Docker-based cloud and HPC workflow engine designed providing
18 strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of large-scale computations.
20 * Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
21 and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
25 To try out Arvados on your local workstation, you can use Arvbox, which
26 provides Arvados components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires
27 Docker 1.9+). After cloning the Arvados git repository:
30 $ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
31 $ ./arvbox start localdemo
34 In this mode you will only be able to connect to Arvbox from the same host. To
35 configure Arvbox to be accessible over a network and for other options see
36 http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details.
40 Complete documentation, including the [User Guide](https://doc.arvados.org/user/index.html), [Installation documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/install/index.html) and
41 [API documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/api/index.html) is available at http://doc.arvados.org/
43 If you wish to build the Arvados documentation from a local git clone, see
44 doc/README.textile for instructions.
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50 The [Arvados community channel](https://gitter.im/arvados/community)
51 channel at [gitter.im](https://gitter.im) is available for live
52 discussion and support.
54 The [Arvados developement channel](https://gitter.im/arvados/development)
55 channel at [gitter.im](https://gitter.im) is used to coordinate development.
57 The [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
58 is used to announce new versions and other news.
62 [Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) on the [dev.arvados.org Redmine site](https://dev.arvados.org).
64 ## Development and Contributing
66 See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information about Arvados development and how to contribute to the Arvados project.
70 Arvados is Free Software. See COPYING for information about Arvados Free