Pith Number

pith:3NSJYWPG

pith:2017:3NSJYWPGS5YFRKNYOQZOHAOPPP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Demystifying Fog Computing: Characterizing Architectures, Applications and Abstractions

Prateeksha Varshney, Yogesh Simmhan

arxiv:1702.06331 v1 · 2017-02-21 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3NSJYWPGS5YFRKNYOQZOHAOPPP}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:42.164366Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db649c59e6977058a9b87432e381cf7bd33e0b0a17f98403e53d236c55b4d1d0

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.06331 · arxiv_version: 1702.06331v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.06331 · pith_short_12: 3NSJYWPGS5YF · pith_short_16: 3NSJYWPGS5YFRKNY · pith_short_8: 3NSJYWPG

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/3NSJYWPGS5YFRKNYOQZOHAOPPP \
  | 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: db649c59e6977058a9b87432e381cf7bd33e0b0a17f98403e53d236c55b4d1d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9da5d0cfa030962a6d65b7d391d36219f67ede04b00be0ca3b0726675f9ba061",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-21T11:22:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5d8308b5c2b14a2c3d2f30d4f7d428662642b9f29934cc921062d454e3d7148"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.06331",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}