Pith Number

pith:YCIUZXW2

pith:2026:YCIUZXW2LGO2SJV7BCDKTCHRUM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When More Cores Hurts: The Vector Database Scaling Paradox in HPC

Amal Gueroudji, Ian Foster, Kyle Chard, Matthieu Dorier, Nicholas Chia, Philip Carns, Robert Latham, Robert Ross, Robert Underwood, Rochana Chaturvedi, Seth Ockerman, Shivaram Venkataraman, Song Young Oh, Swan Perarnau, Tanwi Mallick

arxiv:2606.08950 v1 · 2026-06-08 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YCIUZXW2LGO2SJV7BCDKTCHRUM}

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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	2026-06-09T02:07:49.659121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0914cdeda599da926bf0886a988f1a320d8ed0e6a916f03d3f2e212d8745582

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08950 · arxiv_version: 2606.08950v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08950 · pith_short_12: YCIUZXW2LGO2 · pith_short_16: YCIUZXW2LGO2SJV7 · pith_short_8: YCIUZXW2

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/YCIUZXW2LGO2SJV7BCDKTCHRUM \
  | 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: c0914cdeda599da926bf0886a988f1a320d8ed0e6a916f03d3f2e212d8745582

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b6fb9db9c8c462f3f064644c37fff5ffc8ed2b7cab30c8b9c36cba2c2e814f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-08T02:51:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39864e6fe6a8998159df76b0090fd7489fc00cd289f2da631ebcb2891bd1f3e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}