def prepare_search(self, query_string):
"""
Prepares the threaded search system for running efficiently in multiple threads
"""
# Initialize the Search Engine and the IEEE Processor
se = SearchEngine()
processor = IEEEProcessor()
# First, run the test query at the server
query_results = se.make_test_query(query_string)
# Second, read the results into XML parser root element
root = ET.fromstring(query_results)
# Third, get the amount of found results
self._total_found = processor.get_amount_entries_found(root)
self._calculate_amount_threads(self._total_found)
