* Cluster Replicated Data Store
Separate the data storage and merge strategy from the network IO boundary.
Implement an eager push overlay for transporting recent messages.
Simulation shows fast convergence with 20k nodes.
* Move finality computation into a service run from the banking stage, ComputeLeaderFinalityService
* Change last ids nth to tick height, remove separate tick height from bank
* Add Vote Contract
* Move ownership of LeaderScheduler from Fullnode to the bank
* Modified ReplicateStage to consume leader information from bank
* Restart RPC Services in Leader To Validator Transition
* Make VoteContract Context Free
* Remove voting from ClusterInfo and Tpu
* Remove dependency on ActiveValidators in LeaderScheduler
* Switch VoteContract to have two steps 1) Register 2) Vote. Change thin client to create + register a voting account on fullnode startup
* Remove check in leader_to_validator transition for unique references to bank, b/c jsonrpc service and rpcpubsub hold references through jsonhttpserver
* Use IV to make unique identies
* Use hex! macro for hex literal and not string converted to u8 slice
* fix sha sampling to control init/end of sha state
* Move ledger write to its own stage
- Also, rename write_stage to leader_vote_stage, as write functionality
is moved to a different stage
* Address review comments
* Fix leader rotation test failure
* address review comments
lastidnotfound step 2:
* move "record stage", aka poh_service into banking stage
* remove Entry.has_more, is incompatible with leader rotation
* rewrite entry_next_hash in terms of Poh
* simplify and unify transaction hashing (no embedded nulls)
* register_last_entry from banking stage, fixes#1171 (w00t!)
* new PoH doesn't generate empty ledger entries, so some fixes necessary in
multinode tests that rely on that (e.g. giving validators airdrops)
* make window repair less patient, if we've been waiting for an answer,
don't be shy about most recent blobs
* delete recorder and record stage
* make more verbost thin_client error reporting
* more tracing in window (sigh)
* Add hooks for executing the storage contract
* Add store_ledger stage
Similar to replicate_stage but no voting/banking stuff, just convert
blobs to entries and write the ledger out
* Add storage_addr to tests and add new NodeInfo constructor
to reduce duplication...