Pith Number

pith:6Z2ZAI4O

pith:2016:6Z2ZAI4OXU7CMZGMG6O7C6TH7T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scalability of VM Provisioning Systems

Albert Reuther, Andy Prout, Bill Arcand, Bill Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Charles Yee, David Bestor, Jeremy Kepner, Julie Mullen, Lauren Milechin, Matt Hubbell, Mike Jones, Pete Michaleas, Siddharth Samsi, Tony Rosa, Vijay Gadepally

arxiv:1606.05794 v1 · 2016-06-18 · cs.DC · cs.CY · cs.OS · cs.SY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6Z2ZAI4OXU7CMZGMG6O7C6TH7T}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:25.011504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f67590238ebd3e2664cc379df17a67fcdd6a54ebe55573e1baeba9df7f274388

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.05794 · arxiv_version: 1606.05794v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.05794 · pith_short_12: 6Z2ZAI4OXU7C · pith_short_16: 6Z2ZAI4OXU7CMZGM · pith_short_8: 6Z2ZAI4O

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/6Z2ZAI4OXU7CMZGMG6O7C6TH7T \
  | 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: f67590238ebd3e2664cc379df17a67fcdd6a54ebe55573e1baeba9df7f274388

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98a86ca1717dbeb8cbc3934fec1ad510d2c567197d9e88978ed86c5f05d01cc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.OS",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-18T18:55:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9268899cea70a8fcdaf180d3d992114c686bd6fc8e1f47a7027b790e9d3a7794"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.05794",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}