Pith Number

pith:LJUGFRZT

pith:2013:LJUGFRZTZZIOTJDUXOYHMLLPWP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

To Reserve or Not to Reserve: Optimal Online Multi-Instance Acquisition in IaaS Clouds

Baochun Li, Ben Liang, Wei Wang

arxiv:1305.5608 v1 · 2013-05-24 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LJUGFRZTZZIOTJDUXOYHMLLPWP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:25:03.691581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a6862c733ce50e9a474bbb0762d6fb3d85936664b6b4649f244afdc815b8635

Aliases

arxiv: 1305.5608 · arxiv_version: 1305.5608v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.5608 · pith_short_12: LJUGFRZTZZIO · pith_short_16: LJUGFRZTZZIOTJDU · pith_short_8: LJUGFRZT

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/LJUGFRZTZZIOTJDUXOYHMLLPWP \
  | 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: 5a6862c733ce50e9a474bbb0762d6fb3d85936664b6b4649f244afdc815b8635

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf00aade93fbdcc556d53d13df10e408fd0e84fa86119f48664764e41f205342",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-05-24T02:58:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd51692a51b1202f5bac1fcc53165dc3898ff8ad191c9abcd8891aec902e7dc8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1305.5608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}