Patent ID: 8135723

Claim:
A system to evaluate a query, the system comprising: a first socket in which a first processor is installed; first memory connected to the first socket; a second socket in which a second processor is installed; second memory connected to the second socket, memory accesses in which said first processor accesses said first memory or in which said second processor accesses said second memory having a lower latency time than memory accesses in which said first processor accesses said second memory or in which said second processor accesses said first memory; a first chunk of an index stored in said first memory; a second chunk of said index stored in said second memory; a first instance of a program, wherein the first instance compares the query to the first chunk by comparing the query to keywords stored in said first memory but not to keywords stored in said second memory; and a second instance of the program, where the second instance compares the query to the second chunk by comparing the query to keywords stored in said second memory but not to keywords stored in said first memory.