Honeybees Might Prompt Faster Internet Server Technology

Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 18, 2007 @08:20PM 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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The post to end all posts by doyoulikeworms · 2007-11-18 22:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sweet! There certainly is a buzz around this technology, but I'll beelieve it when a beowulf cluster of linux-running overlords, with questionable Vista support, is welcomed by, for one, me in Soviet Russia.

Flux capacitor.