Pith Number

pith:PREYGY4T

pith:2008:PREYGY4TAP42YIGJYUIRAFBZY5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Accelerating Large-scale Data Exploration through Data Diffusion

Alex Szalay, Ian Foster, Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao

arxiv:0808.3546 v1 · 2008-08-26 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PREYGY4TAP42YIGJYUIRAFBZY5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:48.443357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c4983639303f9ac20c9c511101439c77a528e24d77d90bbe06cebc4186037ba

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.3546 · arxiv_version: 0808.3546v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.3546 · pith_short_12: PREYGY4TAP42 · pith_short_16: PREYGY4TAP42YIGJ · pith_short_8: PREYGY4T

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/PREYGY4TAP42YIGJYUIRAFBZY5 \
  | 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: 7c4983639303f9ac20c9c511101439c77a528e24d77d90bbe06cebc4186037ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72eb4336ad63b064a5b807091edc71ba6043b09281fb739152c1b66a8d848ffa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-26T16:02:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c731f8969529fd479c529fe6ea7bdb8b487a66843328ba1b8d3dc0850735c30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.3546",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}