Pith Number

pith:RJYRSROP

pith:2017:RJYRSROP5N4CQ6JVCBPOJACHBL

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Exploiting Commutativity For Practical Fast Replication

John Ousterhout, Seo Jin Park

arxiv:1710.09921 v1 · 2017-10-26 · cs.DC · cs.OS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RJYRSROP5N4CQ6JVCBPOJACHBL}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:55.196768Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a711945cfeb78287935105ee480470afa3c88e2bfb0a5a47805ff666c513c35

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09921 · arxiv_version: 1710.09921v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09921 · pith_short_12: RJYRSROP5N4C · pith_short_16: RJYRSROP5N4CQ6JV · pith_short_8: RJYRSROP

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/RJYRSROP5N4CQ6JVCBPOJACHBL \
  | 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: 8a711945cfeb78287935105ee480470afa3c88e2bfb0a5a47805ff666c513c35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e4fb295fc0cf786738ba8fe616baa6599a58fdee21c0853380a6635e7162f6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.OS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-26T21:34:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7ac2db7b278cca248cd85954fc9ad3774eca7578ded08361e2f1800d85b9597"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09921",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}