21. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuration software received at the at least one processing node for manipulating at least one processing node of a plurality of processing nodes to operate as a master node of a global-results processing matrix comprises at least one master node configuration file and the configuration software for manipulating at least some of the remaining processing nodes of the plurality of processing nodes to operate as a slave node of the global-results processing matrix comprises at least one slave node configuration file.
1. A method for configuring a system for processing queries, the method comprising: manipulating at least one processing node of a plurality of processing nodes to operate as a master node of a global-results processing matrix based at least in part on configuration software; manipulating at least some of the remaining processing nodes of the plurality of processing nodes to operate as a slave node of the global-results processing matrix based at least in part on configuration software; manipulating at least one processing node of a subset of the plurality of processing nodes to operate as a designated master node of a second global-results processing matrix; manipulating each of the remaining processing nodes of the subset to operate as a designated slave node of the second global-results processing matrix; receiving at least one query; processing the at least one query by at least one of the global-results processing matrix and the second global-results processing matrix, wherein processing the at least one query is based on allocation of database operations among the processing matrices and timing of query submission; and outputting at least one query result based on the processed at least one query.