Pith Number

pith:PI6M2LM5

pith:2025:PI6M2LM5PGNS4C72ENR4W5DDIC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experiences with Model Context Protocol Servers for Science and High Performance Computing

Alexander Brace, Ben Blaiszik, Christopher Grams, Haochen Pan, Hayden Holbrook, Ian Foster, Kyle Chard, Maxime Gonthier, Michael Papka, Owen Price Skelly, Reid Mello, Ryan Chard, Song Young Oh, Tanjin He, Will Engler

arxiv:2508.18489 v1 · 2025-08-25 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PI6M2LM5PGNS4C72ENR4W5DDIC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T11:59:25.304051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a3ccd2d9d799b2e0bfa2363cb746340bffdea7b56917ea26b6f80b3d72362ca

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.18489 · arxiv_version: 2508.18489v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.18489 · pith_short_12: PI6M2LM5PGNS · pith_short_16: PI6M2LM5PGNS4C72 · pith_short_8: PI6M2LM5

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/PI6M2LM5PGNS4C72ENR4W5DDIC \
  | 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: 7a3ccd2d9d799b2e0bfa2363cb746340bffdea7b56917ea26b6f80b3d72362ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "adaea5ac37994709efdf6b4f5964e74a280c7ac03724af23f98610bfb60a7114",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-25T21:02:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fba5ba6100418655bdb8c7fbc2812ff3703bfe80ba9fad147b8b961f14199209"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.18489",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}