Arvados Contributor Wiki¶

This wiki has information related to the open source project. It's a work in progress, so come back often for updates and feel free to become a contributor.

Platform Overview
Introduction to Arvados
Technical Architecture
Cloud Operating Systems and Virtualization
Provenance and Reproducibility
Federation and Data Sharing
Glossary of Arvados Terms

Key Components
Data Manager
Content Addressable Distributed File System ("Keep")
Computation and Pipeline Processing
Web-Based User Interface ("Workbench")
REST API Server
System and Metadata Database
SDKs and Command Line Interface

Using Arvados
Release Status — Important!
User Guide — How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.
API Reference — Details about the Arvados APIs.

Contributing and hacking
Source Tree Overview and Implementation Status
How to Contribute
Documentation Project

Community
Mission and Principles
Governance
IRC and Mailing Lists
Design Process
Roadmap and Release Plan
History
Arvados Transparent Informatics Summit - Fall 2013

Legal
Licensing Terms