Pith Number

pith:ODKAU635

pith:2020:ODKAU635B54D3PUKZUQHVE4WFH

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Hedge Your Bets: Optimizing Long-term Cloud Costs by Mixing VM Purchasing Options

David Irwin, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Noman Bashir, Pradeep Ambati, Prashant Shenoy

arxiv:2004.04302 v1 · 2020-04-08 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ODKAU635B54D3PUKZUQHVE4WFH}

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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	2026-07-05T00:54:06.827234Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70d40a7b7d0f783dbe8acd207a939629f79b2bd2c258a845b6ca402fe4468f7d

Aliases

arxiv: 2004.04302 · arxiv_version: 2004.04302v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2004.04302 · pith_short_12: ODKAU635B54D · pith_short_16: ODKAU635B54D3PUK · pith_short_8: ODKAU635

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/ODKAU635B54D3PUKZUQHVE4WFH \
  | 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: 70d40a7b7d0f783dbe8acd207a939629f79b2bd2c258a845b6ca402fe4468f7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6dc17cfb9662cfb800202baa10e579608b0598eaa5b8e5836cb839d062f69c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-04-08T23:51:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0eb6e0224329c56cb418f7c6ad6bdd377662feaf7befb6fec2ee6e256d797d8b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2004.04302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}