Pith Number

pith:NPPMLD2M

pith:2018:NPPMLD2M7ITJQYG25W5B2JEWSZ

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A Comparative Study of Containers and Virtual Machines in Big Data Environment

Calton Pu, Ling Liu, Liren Wu, Qiwei Dou, Qi Zhang, Wei Zhou

arxiv:1807.01842 v1 · 2018-07-05 · cs.DC · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NPPMLD2M7ITJQYG25W5B2JEWSZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:11:28.513855Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6bdec58f4cfa269860daedba1d2496965e1d2f11366188071e7a090061169bae

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.01842 · arxiv_version: 1807.01842v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.01842 · pith_short_12: NPPMLD2M7ITJ · pith_short_16: NPPMLD2M7ITJQYG2 · pith_short_8: NPPMLD2M

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NPPMLD2M7ITJQYG25W5B2JEWSZ \
  | 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: 6bdec58f4cfa269860daedba1d2496965e1d2f11366188071e7a090061169bae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4272340c0c6dc1ed0c8f4976c7265b70fbfd0a3cd4ccacb95a6099b93bfc027d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-05T04:27:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4963900e73ef19869419b8aa489caad91bafe04a8a0ea3cecd53583ff5c5c150"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.01842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}