Pith Number

pith:PQECBXF7

pith:2011:PQECBXF7CBPEEF5VLXZUOK2YRO

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Reliable Provisioning of Spot Instances for Compute-intensive Applications

Rajkumar Buyya, William Voorsluys

arxiv:1110.5969 v1 · 2011-10-27 · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PQECBXF7CBPEEF5VLXZUOK2YRO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:10.031902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c0820dcbf105e4217b55df3472b588b9b6d063b4f486b352454264c2fa883e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.5969 · arxiv_version: 1110.5969v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.5969 · pith_short_12: PQECBXF7CBPE · pith_short_16: PQECBXF7CBPEEF5V · pith_short_8: PQECBXF7

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/PQECBXF7CBPEEF5VLXZUOK2YRO \
  | 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: 7c0820dcbf105e4217b55df3472b588b9b6d063b4f486b352454264c2fa883e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ecb410b1e84c0d6697b554b91d9b400d7d346f5aada75fc6ec1e5976c059427c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-27T03:12:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "563a8733415ab4d17bf08d89e747fce2e85c023d365fdc6941d19059f8c514cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.5969",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}