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@@ -9,13 +9,17 @@ Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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+h2. Supported Cloud and HPC platforms
+
+Arvados can run in a variety of configurations.  For compute scheduling, Arvados supports HPC clusters using @slurm@, and supports elastic cloud computing on AWS, Google and Azure.  For storage, Arvados can store blocks on regular file systems such as ext4 or xfs, on network file systems such as GPFS, or object storage such as Azure blob storage, Amazon S3, and other object storage that supports the S3 API including Google Cloud Storage and Ceph.
+
 h2. Hardware (or virtual machines)
 
 This guide assumes you have seven systems available in the same network subnet:
 
 <div class="offset1">
 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
-|_Function_|_Number of nodes_|
+|_. Function|_. Number of nodes|
 |Arvados API, Crunch dispatcher, Git, Websockets and Workbench|1|
 |Arvados Compute node|1|
 |Arvados Keepproxy and Keep-web server|1|
@@ -29,9 +33,10 @@ The number of Keepstore, shell and compute nodes listed above is a minimum. In a
 h2. Supported GNU/Linux distributions
 
 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
-|_Distribution_|_State_|_Last supported version_|
+|_. Distribution|_. State|_. Last supported version|
 |CentOS 7|Supported|Latest|
 |Debian 8 ("jessie")|Supported|Latest|
+|Debian 9 ("stretch")|Supported|Latest|
 |Ubuntu 14.04 ("trusty")|Supported|Latest|
 |Ubuntu 16.04 ("xenial")|Supported|Latest|
 |Ubuntu 12.04 ("precise")|EOL|8ed7b6dd5d4df93a3f37096afe6d6f81c2a7ef6e (2017-05-03)|
@@ -59,7 +64,7 @@ gpgkey=http://rpm.arvados.org/CentOS/RPM-GPG-KEY-curoverse
 
 h3. Debian and Ubuntu
 
-Packages are available for Debian 8 ("jessie"), Ubuntu 14.04 ("trusty") and Ubuntu 16.04 ("xenial").
+Packages are available for Debian 8 ("jessie"), Debian 9 ("stretch"), Ubuntu 14.04 ("trusty") and Ubuntu 16.04 ("xenial").
 
 First, register the Curoverse signing key in apt's database:
 
@@ -68,8 +73,9 @@ First, register the Curoverse signing key in apt's database:
 Configure apt to retrieve packages from the Arvados package repository. This command depends on your OS vendor and version:
 
 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
-|OS version|Command|
+|_. OS version|_. Command|
 |Debian 8 ("jessie")|<notextile><code><span class="userinput">echo "deb http://apt.arvados.org/ jessie main" &#x7c; sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arvados.list</span></code></notextile>|
+|Debian 9 ("stretch")|<notextile><code><span class="userinput">echo "deb http://apt.arvados.org/ stretch main" &#x7c; sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arvados.list</span></code></notextile>|
 |Ubuntu 14.04 ("trusty")[1]|<notextile><code><span class="userinput">echo "deb http://apt.arvados.org/ trusty main" &#x7c; sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arvados.list</span></code></notextile>|
 |Ubuntu 16.04 ("xenial")[1]|<notextile><code><span class="userinput">echo "deb http://apt.arvados.org/ xenial main" &#x7c; sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arvados.list</span></code></notextile>|
 
@@ -122,7 +128,7 @@ By convention, we use the following hostname pattern:
 
 <div class="offset1">
 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
-|_Function_|_Hostname_|
+|_. Function|_. Hostname|
 |Arvados API|@uuid_prefix@.your.domain|
 |Arvados Git server|git.@uuid_prefix@.your.domain|
 |Arvados Keepproxy server|keep.@uuid_prefix@.your.domain|