Pith Number

pith:3I2ZF6SL

pith:2021:3I2ZF6SLEHAPFQW2Q5J7CDQDED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Minimizing privilege for building HPC containers

(2) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, 3), (3) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, (4) Center for Computing Research, Andrew J. Younge (4) ((1) High Performance Computing Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Reid Priedhorsky (1), R. Shane Canon (2, Sandia National Laboratories), Timothy Randles (1)

arxiv:2104.07508 v3 · 2021-04-15 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3I2ZF6SLEHAPFQW2Q5J7CDQDED}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T03:52:56.968206Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da3592fa4b21c0f2c2da8753f10e0320c0c8bea087adfcaf7333c8be1d77ed2d

Aliases

arxiv: 2104.07508 · arxiv_version: 2104.07508v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.07508 · pith_short_12: 3I2ZF6SLEHAP · pith_short_16: 3I2ZF6SLEHAPFQW2 · pith_short_8: 3I2ZF6SL

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/3I2ZF6SLEHAPFQW2Q5J7CDQDED \
  | 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: da3592fa4b21c0f2c2da8753f10e0320c0c8bea087adfcaf7333c8be1d77ed2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7e19281fc3cd9fcf8a9bea490b242a3f2c7426b8139cb57bc0e242278748dc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-04-15T15:05:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "009b3e39902daae9176f25bb956728b07b061bac2491ee70a124eb55244a7713"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2104.07508",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}