Pith Number

pith:MBQ52EYL

pith:2017:MBQ52EYLCQ5MHF2UPS6IMOM76K

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Flashield: a Key-value Cache that Minimizes Writes to Flash

Asaf Cidon, Assaf Eisenman, Evgenya Pergament, Mohammad Alizadeh, Or Haimovich, Ryan Stutsman, Sachin Katti

arxiv:1702.02588 v1 · 2017-02-08 · cs.OS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBQ52EYLCQ5MHF2UPS6IMOM76K}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:05.513044Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6061dd130b143ac397547cbc86399ff2974e019c1b5e75c902c7931bcd1ae4a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02588 · arxiv_version: 1702.02588v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02588 · pith_short_12: MBQ52EYLCQ5M · pith_short_16: MBQ52EYLCQ5MHF2U · pith_short_8: MBQ52EYL

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/MBQ52EYLCQ5MHF2UPS6IMOM76K \
  | 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: 6061dd130b143ac397547cbc86399ff2974e019c1b5e75c902c7931bcd1ae4a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed8c69849ac155eb8bb73b853e7fa4524055738d63fa89112f728ee0b8aa0e78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.OS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-08T19:21:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca2d6c5e906d036b368d73b27ddbc01b5b4394d1e2d1f02cf83dc6606cc2ec29"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02588",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}