Pith Number

pith:VIC4P3PP

pith:2011:VIC4P3PPAFWWDPOY2ZGR3SBZMK

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Platforms for Building and Deploying Applications for Cloud Computing

Karthik Sukumar, Rajkumar Buyya

arxiv:1104.4379 v1 · 2011-04-22 · 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{VIC4P3PPAFWWDPOY2ZGR3SBZMK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:23:34.755594Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa05c7edef016d61bdd8d64d1dc8396297efcb52c57cbb90b2a348631245829d

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.4379 · arxiv_version: 1104.4379v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.4379 · pith_short_12: VIC4P3PPAFWW · pith_short_16: VIC4P3PPAFWWDPOY · pith_short_8: VIC4P3PP

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/VIC4P3PPAFWWDPOY2ZGR3SBZMK \
  | 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: aa05c7edef016d61bdd8d64d1dc8396297efcb52c57cbb90b2a348631245829d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c85787f371d80a5fbcf665e463441d3cc051ab8d9b32075450fb1f980a6cea4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-22T02:51:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d6102dbd8d6d121a87f89e9ff8bc27097d4371cb48f10810776d5b7872356cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.4379",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}