Pith Number

pith:77KSSYSN

pith:2017:77KSSYSNVFNMG3ZI6Z76CYJT4H

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On Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services: A Systematic Review

He Zhang, Liam O'Brien, Rainbow Cai, Shayne Flint, Zheng Li

arxiv:1708.01412 v1 · 2017-08-04 · cs.DC · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{77KSSYSNVFNMG3ZI6Z76CYJT4H}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:37.442625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffd529624da95ac36f28f67fe16133e1d6cfbcbbe3c726f37e95b9b996a94959

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01412 · arxiv_version: 1708.01412v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01412 · pith_short_12: 77KSSYSNVFNM · pith_short_16: 77KSSYSNVFNMG3ZI · pith_short_8: 77KSSYSN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/77KSSYSNVFNMG3ZI6Z76CYJT4H \
  | 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: ffd529624da95ac36f28f67fe16133e1d6cfbcbbe3c726f37e95b9b996a94959

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "11afbe1630e37d6b563772f5c0fe20aabaf29342b8946485e0d4fe3367296189",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-04T08:12:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21726808ee4970c144ff1c33b1e8445429261a3ea75933c11c0c683bff4bc67a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01412",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}