-Welcome to Arvados
-==================
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[Arvados](https://arvados.org) is a free software distributed computing platform
for bioinformatics, data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data
Arvados consists of:
* *Keep*: a petabyte-scale content-addressed distributed storage system for managing and
- storing collections of files, accessible via HTTP and FUSE mount.
+ storing collections of files, accessible via a variety of methods including
+ Arvados APIs, WebDAV, and FUSE file system mount.
-* *Crunch*: a Docker-based workflow engine designed providing strong
- versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations.
+* *Crunch*: a Docker-based cloud and HPC workflow engine designed providing
+ strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of large-scale computations.
* Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
## Quick start
-To try out Arvados quickly, you can use Arvbox, which provides Arvados
-components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires Docker 1.9+). After
-cloning the Arvados git repository:
+To try out Arvados on your local workstation, you can use Arvbox, which
+provides Arvados components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires
+Docker 1.9+). After cloning the Arvados git repository:
```
$ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
$ ./arvbox start localdemo
```
-See http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details and documentation.
+In this mode you will only be able to connect to Arvbox from the same host. To
+configure Arvbox to be accessible over a network and for other options see
+http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details.
## Documentation
-Complete documentation, including a User Guide, Installation documentation and
-API documentation is available at http://doc.arvados.org/
+Complete documentation, including the [User Guide](https://doc.arvados.org/user/index.html), [Installation documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/install/index.html) and
+[API documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/api/index.html) is available at http://doc.arvados.org/
If you wish to build the Arvados documentation from a local git clone, see
doc/README.textile for instructions.
## Community
-The [#arvados](irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados IRC) (Internet Relay Chat)
-channel at the
-[Open and Free Technology Community (irc.oftc.net)](http://www.oftc.net/oftc/)
-is available for live discussion and support. You can use a traditional IRC
-client or [join OFTC over the web.](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=arvados)
+[![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/arvados/community](https://badges.gitter.im/arvados/community.svg)](https://gitter.im/arvados/community?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
+
+The [Arvados community channel](https://gitter.im/arvados/community)
+channel at [gitter.im](https://gitter.im) is available for live
+discussion and support.
+
+The [Arvados developement channel](https://gitter.im/arvados/development)
+channel at [gitter.im](https://gitter.im) is used to coordinate development.
-The
-[Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
-is a forum for general discussion, questions, and news about Arvados
-development. The
-[Arvados developer mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados-dev)
-is a forum for more technical discussion, intended for developers and
-contributers to Arvados.
+The [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
+is used to announce new versions and other news.
-## Development
+## Reporting bugs
-[![Build Status](https://ci.curoverse.com/buildStatus/icon?job=arvados-api-server)](https://ci.curoverse.com/job/arvados-api-server/)
+[Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) on the [dev.arvados.org Redmine site](https://dev.arvados.org).
-The Arvados public bug tracker is located at https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
+## Development and Contributing
-Continuous integration is hosted at https://ci.curoverse.com/
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information about Arvados development and how to contribute to the Arvados project.
## Licensing