Pith Number

pith:VXSPPSII

pith:2014:VXSPPSIIKLHXSEPEQ53T4YLY7Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Versioned Object Storage -- Alternatives at the OSD layer (Poster Extended Abstract)

Carlos Maltzahn, Ivo Jimenez, Jay Lofstead

arxiv:1406.3699 v1 · 2014-06-14 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXSPPSIIKLHXSEPEQ53T4YLY7Z}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:49:45.186097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ade4f7c90852cf7911e487773e6178fe7b3421df3b8f3c015d9222c361b89fca

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.3699 · arxiv_version: 1406.3699v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.3699 · pith_short_12: VXSPPSIIKLHX · pith_short_16: VXSPPSIIKLHXSEPE · pith_short_8: VXSPPSII

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/VXSPPSIIKLHXSEPEQ53T4YLY7Z \
  | 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: ade4f7c90852cf7911e487773e6178fe7b3421df3b8f3c015d9222c361b89fca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eac57b1125e67b3bf89d51dc85ffa546a68b254a74d636c12969e46197619366",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-14T08:02:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a382c7a6b51c1bcf40ef7a11301b576beaa93c111faee9d9a61175f1f685d8f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.3699",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}