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 ### <a name="introduction"></a>
-## <b>Swarmlab Hybrid</b> is Swarmlabs younger, more tech savvy brother.  
 
-Swarmlab hybrid provides the user with the unique abillity to create  Labrooms (or other applications) and share them as project images expanding the simple swarmlab Labrooms to full-blown systems. An all of that <b>using onlly the browser and the command line</b> of their system.
+An open source work/study-from-home application.
 
-## Why?
+Swarmlab provides you with all the required tools, tools to teach work or try out demos in a completely virtual environment.
-Ever imagined having a normal lesson as you would in the University from the comfort of your livingroom?  
-Ever created a service that you would like to test on a real-world network?  
-Ever designed an Labroom/application you would like to distribute to your students/applications?  
-Swarmlab Hybrid comes to bridge the gap between tutor and student, the coder/developer of a service and the and user and at the same time meet the needs for a real-world testing environment.   
-With Hybrid we can now as part of the cloud work <b>independantly</b> but also stay <b>connected</b>.  
-The hybrid format allows us to utilize the power of Swarmlab itself but also combine it with the practiaclly unlimited computing of our own machines.
 
-## How?
+Swarmlab is a collection of services that aims to:
-How does Swarmlab Hybrid differ from Swarmlab? Well...its Swarmlab...just....HYBRID!  
-Easy enough right? But what does that mean in practice?  
-Well for us it means a couple million more lines of code. For you it means a few more installation steps and the newfound access to YOUR OWN RESOURCES!
 
-You will be connected to the Swarmlab Cloud (hence HYBRID) but you will be able to use your own storage(move files around, delete/copy etc),your own networking and computational power(cpu/graphics etc) and create a system exactly the way you need it.  
+-    provide teachers and professors with online remote tools to do their lessons
 
-This way you will be able to :
+-    give students the opportunity to study real life examples in their chosen area of expertise
-- <b>create</b> images for testing.  
-- <b>Run</b> them using docker.  
-- <b>Share</b> them for others to use and develop.  
-- Finally <b>browse the cloud</b> for shared images to <b>integrate</b> into your project and make it even better.  
 
-## Ready to run out-of-the-box
+-    allow developers to fully test and debug their applications and provide POC’s
 
-Normally the docker dataflow is as described in the following images:
+Swarmlab, up and running since 2020, is already used for teaching purposes in a university and has proven itself as a powerful tool in the post covid remote-based situation.
 
-<img align="center"  src="https://git.swarmlab.io:3000/zeus/swarmlab-hybrid/raw/branch/master/docs/images/docker-build.png">
+Source code is available at https://git.swarmlab.io:3000 under the AGPL licence.
-<img align="center"  src="https://git.swarmlab.io:3000/zeus/swarmlab-hybrid/raw/branch/master/docs/images/docker-run.png">
 
-To make the service easier to use we have created an ever-growing database of readilly accessible images you can choose from, thus making the first step optionall!
 
-## Swarmlab vs Swarmlab Hybrid in a nutshell
+### Ready to run out-of-the-box
 
-### Swarmlab
+As of now the services provided by swarmlab are:
 
-- Ready to use, on demand virtual labs
+-    Labrooms(virtual classrooms in the form of model applications to be tweaked at will)
-- Optimized for both Students and Tutors
-- Tutors bootstrap their labrooms using our tools
 
+   -       linux → base linux system – designed for use as a base to further develop your app
+
+   -        MPI → Instances of Ubuntu Linux with MPICH — portable implementation of Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. Designed for MPI program development and deployment.
+
+   -        Node.js
+
+   -        sec → a basic linux-based os with security tools – designed as a template for apps
+
+-    Storage to automatically create a cluster of databases.
+
+-    Proof Of Concept (POC) options
+
+   -        datacollector → using provided services a fully developed application may collect data from a swarm and use it for further analysis
+
+-    Microservices
+
+   -        Jupyter
+   
+   -        numpy
+   
+   -        scipy
+   
+   -        nodejs
+   
+   -        nginx
+   
+   -        haproxy
+   
+   -        gns3
+   
+   -        wireshark
+   
+   -        snmpsim
+   
+   -        xelatexthesis
+   
+   -        ansible
+   
+   -        etherpad
+   
+   -        codeserver (vscode)
+   
+   -        redisserver
+   
+   -        mongoserver
+   
+   -        mongoclient (GUI)
+
+        to be continued…
 
-### Hybrid
-- Create Labrooms/Applications
-- Run and manage said rooms and application
-- create once - scale up or down without rebuilding
-- Connect multiple computers through a network.
-- Move Labs between environments
-- Create your own labs 
-- open source barebone -> <b>Share them with your friends</b>
 
 
-### In any case students can:  
-- join the created labrooms according to their interrests
-- run the evailable labs at will
-- create their own rooms for exercising  
 
-## IMPORTANT
-:exclamation: If you wish to use the service in Hybrid mode, that is if you want to share, download or perform other activites on the cloud you will need a <b>KEY</b>. Read installation instructions to learn how to do that.  
 
-Local usage of the service <b>doesnt</b> require one, you only need to log in to your account.  
 
 ## System requirements<a name="systemrequirements"></a>