Walsh Computer Technology Introduces BEES Technology
April 1st, 2010 -- With great fanfare, Walsh Computer Technology today announced its new BEES technology. BEES technology, according to the folks at WCT (and nearly nobody else) has the potential to turn the concept of multi-core central processing units on its head. With computer clock speeds largely having leveled off, today's computers focus more on dividing tasks between logical or physical processors to get them done faster. This is opposed to the former method, which basically involved cranking up the clock speed of a single processor until it moved fast enough to do what you wanted, or until it required more heat sink and fan than you could fit into your home.

BEES, short for "Binary Express Execution System", builds on the multi-core processor concept. Instead of making each core fully functional, BEES provides for many small execution units, each one having highly limited capabilities. In other words, each individual BEES unit does one thing, although the jury is still out on whether or not that one thing is done well, or even at all in some cases. But if you get enough of them together, something will eventually happen, and it will be big.

When asked what gave him the idea behind BEES, company owner William Walsh said it was very simple. "I went over to the house I lovingly and only half-jokingly refer to as the Roach Palace. While I was there looking for something, I found a bunch of BEES. That's when I hit upon the idea of putting them into a computer. BEES are frequently very busy, and though their work is simple, they usually get a lot of it done in a day and the results are highly useful. They also have a very mature hypervisor, known as the queen, that might make for an excellent performance boost in applications where virtualization is called for."

So it was that BEES came into "beeing". After a few dozen stings, Walsh observed that the BEES had settled down, perhaps due to radio frequency emissions from the motherboard's clock generator. Or perhaps it was the fact that the computer soon caught on fire, an occurrence that he attributed to a lack of proper cooling for the newly installed "hardware".

"It's already been proven that black computers are faster. With BEES, however, those owners who had to settle for a boring beige computer case can regain that lost performance. And what's more, you can easily govern the performance level that BEES adds to your system with the simple addition of a something that produces smoke--like a CPU run without a heatsink after a few seconds, nVidia 8600 series GPUs, or an overloaded cheap power supply with a pencil stuck in the fan. BEES slow down when there is smoke in the air, so if you turn off the smoke, your computing performance will increase within minutes of doing so. You'll realize the performance boost in roughtly one ohnosecond."

What's next for the technology? Walsh says he still has plenty of BEES, so many in fact that a hive may soon be formed. His plans are to install BEES in certain customer's computers. He hasn't formed a criteria for whose systems will get BEES and whose won't, but some possible factors Walsh said would be considered were those customers who complained of slow computers, or those who continually reinfested their computers with malware. Those who specifically ask for BEES will receive them at no charge. It's presently very difficult to integrate BEES into laptops, as there is no place to put them. However, options are being considered, and there should be some laptops out there even today that are heavy enough to prevent the BEES from flying off with them.

Should the use of BEES prove popular in computing, Walsh says he's prepared to discuss licensing and marketing of the technology to other companies, with a focus on free distribution and placing the use of BEES into an open source arrangement. He readily admits that BEES are easily found, and that many people may already be near some. What he believes will set his BEES apart is the experience they will gain as a result of being placed inside a computer.  Most BEES won't work as well until they've had some time to become "seasoned".

"All of our efforts will center around generating buzz for this technology."

The overclocking community may also soon be able to take advantage of killer BEES for even more performance.

Look for BEES in your computer sometime around April 1st, 2011. In the meantime, if you'd like to try the BEES yourself, Walsh says you must be careful to pick the right ones. Wasps, yellow jackets, mud daubers and other, similar insects usually won't work as well or at all. Other bugs such as cockroaches, flies and mosquitoes tend not to work at all, and result in applications becoming unstable.