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Virus is a simple, mildly-resilient to failure mechanism that runs around a cluster and delivers its payload (a process execution), in a self-sustained fashion.
The virus mechanism contains two parts: a payload process and a nucleus process.
The payload can be any OS process, available locally as a binary.
The nucleus is embodied in this circuit application. It executes the payload OS process on a random machine in the circuit cluster. Then it installs itself on a machine different from that of the payload process, and proceeds to watch the payload until it dies.
When the payload dies, the nucleus executes a new payload instance on another randomly chosen host, and replaces itself with a new nucleus process on yet another new random host. And so on ...
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