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             <h1>Federated function as a service</h1>
             <p>Use funcX to execute functions across a federated ecosystem of funcX endpoints.</p>
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        <h2 class="my-4">funcX is now <a href="https://www.globus.org/compute">Globus Compute</a></h2>
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          <li><h5><a href="globus-compute.html">Read about the transition.</a></h5></li>
          <li><h5><a href="https://docs.globus.org/compute">Read the Globus Compute docs.</a></h5></li>
          <li><h5><a href="https://app.globus.org/compute">Check out the Globus Compute web interface.</a></h5></li>
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            <h2>Try funcX</h2>
            <p>Use a Jupyter notebook to run funcX tutorials in your browser. No installation required!</p>
            <p><a class="btn btn-secondary" href="https://jupyter.demo.globus.org/hub/user-redirect/lab/tree/globus-jupyter-notebooks/Compute_Introduction.ipynb" role="button">Try now »</a></p>
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            <h2>Install funcX</h2>
            <p>Install the funcX SDK to register, share, and execute functions.</p>
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            <h2>Deploy an endpoint</h2>
            <p>Deploy a funcX endpoint on a laptop, cloud, or cluster.</p>
            <p><a class="btn btn-secondary" href="https://globus-compute.readthedocs.org/en/latest/endpoints.html" role="button">Learn more »</a></p>
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            <h2 class="featurette-heading">Fire-and-forget remote function execution.</h2>
            <p class="lead">Reliably execute functions on remote endpoints with a simple syntax.</p>
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            <h2 class="featurette-heading">Turn any resource into a function-serving endpoint. 
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            <p class="lead">Deploy a funcX endpoint to transform clouds, clusters, and supercomputers into a high performance function-serving endpoints.</p>
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            <h2 class="featurette-heading">Execute millions of functions across thousands of nodes.
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            <p class="lead">funcX efficiently manages connected resources by elastically deploying workers and containers across nodes.</p>
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            <h2 class="featurette-heading">Securely execute functions in customized containers. 
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            <p class="lead">Log in using hundreds of supported identity providers. funcX implements fine-grained access control to endpoints and function executions are isolated within containers.</p>
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