Honeybees Might Prompt Faster Internet Server Technology 131
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.
Oblig (Score:4, Funny)
Compulsory Comcast comment (Score:5, Funny)
Nanny nanny boo boo. (Score:4, Funny)
Bees (Score:2, Funny)
After all... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:After all... (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nanny nanny boo boo. (Score:5, Funny)
cuz you can study those bees all day long and it won't make you a better web programmer.
No, but you'll be a web programmer who knows a lot about bees. Think of the possibilities!
Re:Nanny nanny boo boo. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:no central command ? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oblig (Score:5, Funny)
"What's that, Bumbly?"
"Bzz"
"Network bottleneck at the 4th-floor router? How did that happen?"
"Bzz"
"Faulty ethernet card in room 402? Quick! We'd better get down there and save them!"
Re:Nanny nanny boo boo. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nanny nanny boo boo. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sometimes swarm behavior is inefficient (Score:1, Funny)
You'll have a group of birds (the 'flock') flying over you in circles, trying to get your attention. Meanwhile, while you're not paying attention, an accomplice on the ground (the 'duck') will swipe your wallet.
This happened to me while visiting London, and while it sucked to be stranded in the city without any cash, it is a very good example of how so-called 'gang behaviour' can show considerable street smarts even though each individual member isn't very intelligent. (A lot of these birds were hatched on the street, and never even learned to read and write.)
Re:Almost historical concept ... (Score:3, Funny)
spaghetti code (Score:4, Funny)
Obviously if the universe is mostly spaghetti code, it is a clear indication that the Creator must have been somehow involved in, well, spaghetti. Like say the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Talk about Occam's Razor - there is no simpler hypothesis available. Pasta -> Pasta. QED.
Re:clusters ? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is not to say that there isn't any room for improvement. There's a lot to be learned from wolves, for example, where each member of the pack serves a unique and important role.
It's quite likely that by combining aspects of many of these ecologies, we could create a system even more efficient than any individual one.
Imagine a Bee-Wolf cluster...
Colony Collapse Syndrome? (Score:4, Funny)
It's a plot by HP, I tell you!