Pith Number

pith:PNSKDC5R

pith:2014:PNSKDC5RNMWYJGAU7N4B5B4O3G

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Executing Bag of Distributed Tasks on the Cloud: Investigating the Trade-offs Between Performance and Cost

Adam Barker, Blesson Varghese, Long Thai

arxiv:1410.8357 v1 · 2014-10-30 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PNSKDC5RNMWYJGAU7N4B5B4O3G}

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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	2026-05-18T02:39:00.071563Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b64a18bb16b2d849814fb781e878ed9b716471ca2bbd742295106eebe9f6ec2

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.8357 · arxiv_version: 1410.8357v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.8357 · pith_short_12: PNSKDC5RNMWY · pith_short_16: PNSKDC5RNMWYJGAU · pith_short_8: PNSKDC5R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PNSKDC5RNMWYJGAU7N4B5B4O3G \
  | 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: 7b64a18bb16b2d849814fb781e878ed9b716471ca2bbd742295106eebe9f6ec2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc57bfc8e6f79c39ed2401582ca2e7a15af45b6eb48e002722ef0822b9b8303c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-30T13:01:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "790c8f166b7478ef25614012f0950190716ffbf64bf58e1a415c4e3a46f1e589"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.8357",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}