Pith Number

pith:2JKYBTH4

pith:2018:2JKYBTH4SIH3DIV6LNVA5J2FDZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Bare Metal to Virtual: Lessons Learned when a Supercomputing Institute Deploys its First Cloud

Evan F. Bollig, James C. Wilgenbusch

arxiv:1807.08654 v1 · 2018-07-23 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2JKYBTH4SIH3DIV6LNVA5J2FDZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:05.169513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d25580ccfc920fb1a2be5b6a0ea7451e527d110d1989736ce83b903cc19d4942

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.08654 · arxiv_version: 1807.08654v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.08654 · pith_short_12: 2JKYBTH4SIH3 · pith_short_16: 2JKYBTH4SIH3DIV6 · pith_short_8: 2JKYBTH4

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/2JKYBTH4SIH3DIV6LNVA5J2FDZ \
  | 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: d25580ccfc920fb1a2be5b6a0ea7451e527d110d1989736ce83b903cc19d4942

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45d75e920800c28f1154b9a448495cce9bfd91b6942b398124a748ca6495b0a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-23T14:54:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "497a91b6582848c6466c9d4fdcb665748bca02fade09439410437b2150e1c114"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.08654",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}