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 cluster and HPC workflow engine designed providing
14 strong 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 Curoverse maintains an Arvados public cloud demo at
22 [https://cloud.curoverse.com](https://cloud.curoverse.com). A Google account
23 is required to log in.
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 a User Guide, Installation documentation and
41 API documentation 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.
48 The [#arvados](irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados IRC) (Internet Relay Chat)
50 [Open and Free Technology Community (irc.oftc.net)](http://www.oftc.net/oftc/)
51 is available for live discussion and support. You can use a traditional IRC
52 client or [join OFTC over the web.](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=arvados)
55 [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
56 is a forum for general discussion, questions, and news about Arvados
58 [Arvados developer mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados-dev)
59 is a forum for more technical discussion, intended for developers and
60 contributers to Arvados.
64 [![Build Status](https://ci.curoverse.com/buildStatus/icon?job=arvados-api-server)](https://ci.curoverse.com/job/arvados-api-server/)
66 The Arvados public bug tracker is located at https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
68 Continuous integration is hosted at https://ci.curoverse.com/
70 Instructions for setting up a development environment and working on specific
71 components can be found on the
72 ["Hacking Arvados" page of the Arvados wiki](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Hacking).
76 Arvados is Free Software. See COPYING for information about Arvados Free