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@@ -11,6 +11,23 @@ Ray
 
 Ray is a flexible, high-performance distributed execution framework.
 
-View the `documentation`_.
+Installation
+------------
 
-.. _`documentation`: http://ray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
+- Ray can be installed on Linux and Mac with ``pip install ray``.
+- To build Ray from source, see the instructions for `Ubuntu`_ and `Mac`_.
+
+.. _`Ubuntu`: http://ray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install-on-ubuntu.html
+.. _`Mac`: http://ray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install-on-macosx.html
+
+
+More Information
+----------------
+
+- `Documentation`_
+- `Blog`_
+- `HotOS paper`_
+
+.. _`Documentation`: http://ray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
+.. _`Blog`: https://ray-project.github.io/ray/
+.. _`HotOS paper`: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03924