Pith Number

pith:56N5WHDA

pith:2014:56N5WHDAGCTZBE6KX77TL2YGNM

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Patterns in the Chaos - a Study of Performance Variation and Predictability in Public IaaS Clouds

Juergen Cito, Philipp Leitner

arxiv:1411.2429 v2 · 2014-11-10 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{56N5WHDAGCTZBE6KX77TL2YGNM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:41.684973Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef9bdb1c6030a79093cabfff35eb066b02ec432bd17bc9223a30bc980e4e3503

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.2429 · arxiv_version: 1411.2429v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2429 · pith_short_12: 56N5WHDAGCTZ · pith_short_16: 56N5WHDAGCTZBE6K · pith_short_8: 56N5WHDA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/56N5WHDAGCTZBE6KX77TL2YGNM \
  | 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: ef9bdb1c6030a79093cabfff35eb066b02ec432bd17bc9223a30bc980e4e3503

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c5ea3099ff048bfa84b756d46b0d04f9626a1dd6b2fdcb49f3dc2397cf6a9ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-10T13:58:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a60bf27dcf78a40446d548268ccdf89d1806dc1162845c61a6648af6c7e49e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.2429",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}