1 [//]: # Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
3 [//]: # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
5 [Arvados](https://arvados.org) is a free software distributed computing platform
6 for bioinformatics, data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data
7 sets. Arvados supports a variety of cloud, cluster and HPC environments.
11 * *Keep*: a petabyte-scale content-addressed distributed storage system for managing and
12 storing collections of files, accessible via HTTP and FUSE mount.
14 * *Crunch*: a Docker-based cluster and HPC workflow engine designed providing
15 strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations.
17 * Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
18 and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
22 Curoverse maintains an Arvados public cloud demo at
23 [https://cloud.curoverse.com](https://cloud.curoverse.com). A Google account
24 is required to log in.
26 To try out Arvados on your local workstation, you can use Arvbox, which
27 provides Arvados components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires
28 Docker 1.9+). After cloning the Arvados git repository:
31 $ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
32 $ ./arvbox start localdemo
35 In this mode you will only be able to connect to Arvbox from the same host. To
36 configure Arvbox to be accessible over a network and for other options see
37 http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details.
41 Complete documentation, including a User Guide, Installation documentation and
42 API documentation is available at http://doc.arvados.org/
44 If you wish to build the Arvados documentation from a local git clone, see
45 doc/README.textile for instructions.
49 The [#arvados](irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados IRC) (Internet Relay Chat)
51 [Open and Free Technology Community (irc.oftc.net)](http://www.oftc.net/oftc/)
52 is available for live discussion and support. You can use a traditional IRC
53 client or [join OFTC over the web.](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=arvados)
56 [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
57 is a forum for general discussion, questions, and news about Arvados
59 [Arvados developer mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados-dev)
60 is a forum for more technical discussion, intended for developers and
61 contributers to Arvados.
65 [![Build Status](https://ci.curoverse.com/buildStatus/icon?job=run-tests)](https://ci.curoverse.com/job/run-tests/)
66 [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/curoverse/arvados)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/curoverse/arvados)
68 The Arvados public bug tracker is located at https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
70 Continuous integration is hosted at https://ci.curoverse.com/
72 Instructions for setting up a development environment and working on specific
73 components can be found on the
74 ["Hacking Arvados" page of the Arvados wiki](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Hacking).
78 Arvados is Free Software. See COPYING for information about Arvados Free