Pith Number

pith:GIX5CWZ6

pith:2019:GIX5CWZ6YRGCB5YCSMWVA5ZFKA

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VM Image Repository and Distribution Models for Federated Clouds: State of the Art, Possible Directions and Open Issues

Dragi Kimovski, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan, Simon Ostermann

arxiv:1906.09182 v1 · 2019-06-21 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GIX5CWZ6YRGCB5YCSMWVA5ZFKA}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:44.243612Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

322fd15b3ec44c20f702932d50772550276088dfeb2ec7210bc3a2341f72d93e

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.09182 · arxiv_version: 1906.09182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.09182 · pith_short_12: GIX5CWZ6YRGC · pith_short_16: GIX5CWZ6YRGCB5YC · pith_short_8: GIX5CWZ6

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/GIX5CWZ6YRGCB5YCSMWVA5ZFKA \
  | 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: 322fd15b3ec44c20f702932d50772550276088dfeb2ec7210bc3a2341f72d93e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "860588e1c602b2059dd92f65ba20144b0d2052e07069c86d2006ffbfcb5068a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-21T15:04:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30c887b4f85cbd7ee82a23dce9bcd436b0512cb038c5faa80a5a99bae680f5ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.09182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}