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Honeybees Might Prompt Faster Internet Server Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the heard-the-buzz-about-it dept.

coondoggie writes "The Georgia Institute of Technology is working on the theory that honeybees can give us hints about how to improve the speed and efficiency of Internet servers. Honeybees somehow manage to efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central command. Such swarm intelligence of these amazingly organized bees can also be used to improve the efficiency of Internet servers faced with similar challenges." This has some similarities to the rules of the swarm discussion we had last week.

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  1. clusters ? by jacquesm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think bees (or ants) should get the all-time patent rights to clustering a number of not so intelligent nodes into something that exhibits a higher degree of intelligence.

    It's still quite hard to come up with stuff that is not in some way already present in nature. If you are prepared to accept a certain level of metaphor.

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  2. no central command ? by permaculture · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't tell that to the queen.

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  3. See: MUTE by trawg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    MUTE is a privacy-protecting p2p application: MUTE's routing mechanism is inspired by ant behavior.