Pith Number

pith:2E3PLNUB

pith:2013:2E3PLNUBXKEWJLS4664D5JG7GH

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Monitoring Large-Scale Cloud Systems with Layered Gossip Protocols

Adam Barker, Jonathan Stuart Ward

arxiv:1305.7403 v1 · 2013-05-31 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2E3PLNUBXKEWJLS4664D5JG7GH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:22:07.035743Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d136f5b681ba8964ae5cf7b83ea4df31ec71a307bd4fe674cc0a32ce01e5d2f8

Aliases

arxiv: 1305.7403 · arxiv_version: 1305.7403v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.7403 · pith_short_12: 2E3PLNUBXKEW · pith_short_16: 2E3PLNUBXKEWJLS4 · pith_short_8: 2E3PLNUB

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2E3PLNUBXKEWJLS4664D5JG7GH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d136f5b681ba8964ae5cf7b83ea4df31ec71a307bd4fe674cc0a32ce01e5d2f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a028202bf3cd6a9025b041d8db801d57f47aae3c6e7be7e885223d980774f48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-05-31T14:11:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4704675fdca9fe07228dce6167a69b3063cf6afa48b0fa753a9a6a879ea7423c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1305.7403",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}