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.
Not going to work outside of individual systems (Score:5, Insightful)
Rogue nodes would be able to disrupt the swarm in the same way that scientists are able to wreak havoc on hives, ants, and other 'swarms' by deliberately injecting fake disruptive markers/signals etc.
This technology sounds about as bright as cooperative multitasking. Suitable for a closed system (e.g. a single application) but an utter disaster if applied in an environment where some threads are just defective, or worse, hostile.
Nope. Humans won that one years ago (Score:3, Insightful)
Company Intelligence (Score:5, Insightful)
This sounds like the opposite to today's corporate culture, where a whole lot of smart people are part of a swarm, and the end product is utter stupidity...
"None of us is as stupid as all of us".
Re:no central command ? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Nanny nanny boo boo. (Score:2, Insightful)
In Lisp or Perl? [xkcd.com]
I have a theory: As time goes on, the odds of any slashdot thread becoming an XKCD comic, or vice-versa, approaches one.