Pith Number

pith:ZRR6W4FI

pith:2018:ZRR6W4FIEHLQF7CFPVGA7MU2AY

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Micky: A Cheaper Alternative for Selecting Cloud Instances

Chin-Jung Hsu, Tim Menzies, Vincent Freeh, Vivek Nair

arxiv:1803.05587 v1 · 2018-03-15 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZRR6W4FIEHLQF7CFPVGA7MU2AY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:55.090082Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc63eb70a821d702fc457d4c0fb29a0607b92d32059a49042432e0b4a8630f67

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.05587 · arxiv_version: 1803.05587v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.05587 · pith_short_12: ZRR6W4FIEHLQ · pith_short_16: ZRR6W4FIEHLQF7CF · pith_short_8: ZRR6W4FI

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/ZRR6W4FIEHLQF7CFPVGA7MU2AY \
  | 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: cc63eb70a821d702fc457d4c0fb29a0607b92d32059a49042432e0b4a8630f67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "239da6377514198137e47ca405e2586b916811a2b14beadc13ba5ec7433bad63",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-15T04:14:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd4578ec6a06909baba92ed9a00bbdff0cc51ba1eaf980abd2483990eeadc6be"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.05587",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}