1 [Arvados](https://arvados.org) is a free software distributed computing platform
2 for bioinformatics, data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data
3 sets. Arvados supports a variety of cloud, cluster and HPC environments.
7 * *Keep*: a petabyte-scale content-addressed distributed storage system for managing and
8 storing collections of files, accessible via HTTP and FUSE mount.
10 * *Crunch*: a Docker-based cluster and HPC workflow engine designed providing
11 strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations.
13 * Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
14 and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
18 Curoverse maintains an Arvados public cloud demo at
19 [https://cloud.curoverse.com](https://cloud.curoverse.com). A Google account
20 is required to log in.
22 To try out Arvados on your local workstation, you can use Arvbox, which
23 provides Arvados components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires
24 Docker 1.9+). After cloning the Arvados git repository:
27 $ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
28 $ ./arvbox start localdemo
31 In this mode you will only be able to connect to Arvbox from the same host. To
32 configure Arvbox to be accessible over a network and for other options see
33 http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details.
37 Complete documentation, including a User Guide, Installation documentation and
38 API documentation is available at http://doc.arvados.org/
40 If you wish to build the Arvados documentation from a local git clone, see
41 doc/README.textile for instructions.
45 The [#arvados](irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados IRC) (Internet Relay Chat)
47 [Open and Free Technology Community (irc.oftc.net)](http://www.oftc.net/oftc/)
48 is available for live discussion and support. You can use a traditional IRC
49 client or [join OFTC over the web.](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=arvados)
52 [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
53 is a forum for general discussion, questions, and news about Arvados
55 [Arvados developer mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados-dev)
56 is a forum for more technical discussion, intended for developers and
57 contributers to Arvados.
61 [![Build Status](https://ci.curoverse.com/buildStatus/icon?job=arvados-api-server)](https://ci.curoverse.com/job/arvados-api-server/)
63 The Arvados public bug tracker is located at https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
65 Continuous integration is hosted at https://ci.curoverse.com/
67 Instructions for setting up a development environment and working on specific
68 components can be found on the
69 ["Hacking Arvados" page of the Arvados wiki](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Hacking).
73 Arvados is Free Software. See COPYING for information about Arvados Free