Pith Number

pith:PKYSFA6Q

pith:2010:PKYSFA6QZKPYYAPWF22F5YTHZB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Approach to Ad hoc Cloud Computing

Alan Dearle, Alvaro Fernandes, Angus Macdonald, Graham Kirby

arxiv:1002.4738 v1 · 2010-02-25 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PKYSFA6QZKPYYAPWF22F5YTHZB}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:58.467028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ab12283d0ca9f8c01f62eb45ee267c87c09feacad33b40f8d6bbca534632755

Aliases

arxiv: 1002.4738 · arxiv_version: 1002.4738v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1002.4738 · pith_short_12: PKYSFA6QZKPY · pith_short_16: PKYSFA6QZKPYYAPW · pith_short_8: PKYSFA6Q

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/PKYSFA6QZKPYYAPWF22F5YTHZB \
  | 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: 7ab12283d0ca9f8c01f62eb45ee267c87c09feacad33b40f8d6bbca534632755

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e355ea39b7df2aa3393689c89574d9e85fbba7fdbfbc69bb76df01bf16a7b2f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-02-25T10:19:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c0752d14fc926253c078eb3e684cfcd041f30e49ad1a1ed9a2a4ec94bbdc129"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1002.4738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}