1 Welcome to the Arvados Project!
3 Arvados is an open source distributed computing platform for bioinformatics,
4 data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data sets. Arvados
5 supports a variety of cloud, cluster and HPC environments. Arvados consists of
6 a content-addressable storage system "Keep" for managing and storing large
7 collections of files; a containerized workflow engine "Crunch" designed for
8 versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations; and a variety
9 related services and components including APIs, SDKs, and visual tools.
11 The main Arvados web site is
14 The Arvados public wiki is located at
15 https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki
17 The Arvados public bug tracker is located at
18 https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
21 http://doc.arvados.org/user/getting_started/community.html
23 Installation documentation is located at
24 http://doc.arvados.org/install
26 To try out Arvados quickly, you can use Arvbox, which provides Arvados
27 components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires Docker 1.9+). After
30 $ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
31 $ ./arvbox start localdemo
33 See http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details and documentation.
35 If you wish to build the Arvados documentation yourself, follow the
36 instructions in doc/README to build the documentation, then consult the
39 See COPYING for information about Arvados Free Software licenses.