Pith Number

pith:5CXZ7KV5

pith:2018:5CXZ7KV5HMU5EMXNVMCSACUXWU

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A parallel workload has extreme variability in a production environment

N. W. Watkins, R. Henwood, R. McLay, S. C. Chapman

arxiv:1801.03898 v1 · 2018-01-11 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5CXZ7KV5HMU5EMXNVMCSACUXWU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:13.270567Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8af9faabd3b29d232edab05200a97b526c68d4c32c5d4fe706cc57a068ff817

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.03898 · arxiv_version: 1801.03898v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.03898 · pith_short_12: 5CXZ7KV5HMU5 · pith_short_16: 5CXZ7KV5HMU5EMXN · pith_short_8: 5CXZ7KV5

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/5CXZ7KV5HMU5EMXNVMCSACUXWU \
  | 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: e8af9faabd3b29d232edab05200a97b526c68d4c32c5d4fe706cc57a068ff817

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b12e8e5bb656144d7dab36e0f7f97964e12129c8f03485298f5efcb966121fab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-11T17:45:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ba143bdaddd7dd983bc204c1422f4ac4004dd30e9a8f589e47f180478883877"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.03898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}