Bee Strategy Helps Servers Run More Sweetly

My husband raises honeybees, so I found this article very interesting. On a side note, I found a drone that got kicked out of the hive on my kitchen windowsill on Sunday. I guess he had outlived his usefulness. I wonder how that scenario fits into this research?

ScienceDaily (2007-11-21) -- The swarm intelligence of honeybees can be adapted to improve the efficiency of Internet servers faced with similar challenges. A bee dance-inspired communications system helps Internet servers that would normally be devoted solely to one task move between tasks as needed, reducing the chances that a website could be overwhelmed with requests and lock out potential users and customers.