Pith Number

pith:BZ4IVVZG

pith:2012:BZ4IVVZGBACAD3UKXQGOJFZ5SZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Generic Checkpoint-Restart Mechanism for Virtual Machines

Gene Cooperman, Komal Sodha, Rohan Garg

arxiv:1212.1787 v1 · 2012-12-08 · cs.OS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZ4IVVZGBACAD3UKXQGOJFZ5SZ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:55.111003Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e788ad726080401ee8abc0ce4973d96738d40b9caf778c360b1330a7d7780af

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.1787 · arxiv_version: 1212.1787v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.1787 · pith_short_12: BZ4IVVZGBACA · pith_short_16: BZ4IVVZGBACAD3UK · pith_short_8: BZ4IVVZG

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/BZ4IVVZGBACAD3UKXQGOJFZ5SZ \
  | 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: 0e788ad726080401ee8abc0ce4973d96738d40b9caf778c360b1330a7d7780af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06e8f26682a0e9dc318efe17d60645d6ac2a798a153169dfe93db0757a438e7b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-08T12:56:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b92554df2c9367ff482367a287d319d55f716bbb9f09cc9ce299fb42ed6e75b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.1787",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}