Advice on calculation script

I have a BSO cube with 9 dimensions ( 3 dense + 6 sparse ). One of the sparse dimensions is a date with a hierarchy structure of year/year&qrt/year&month/year&month&day. At midnight for every day I'm running a load rule that loads the previous days data into the cube.
If I perform a full calc of the cube, it takes approx 30mins, if I use a script to only recalculate the newly added date, it takes approx 60mins. Script as follows:
//ESS_LOCALE English_UnitedStates.Latin1@Binary
SET UPDATECALC OFF;
SET CALCPARALLEL 4;
FIX(@ALLANCESTORS("01/08/2011"))
CALC DIM(dense_dim_1,dense_dim_2,dense_dim_3,sparse_dim_1,sparse_dim_2,sparse_dim_3,sparse_dim_4,sparse_dim_5);
ENDFIX
@ALLANCESTORS("01/08/2011");
SET UPDATECALC ON;
This would be the script run on the 2nd Aug to calculate the values for the 1st.
Can anyone advise on how I can speed up the single day calculation? or revise the calculation script to be more efficient. The Outline dimensions follow the normal hourglass on dimension members.
Thanks

I see a couple of things that could be possible.
1. Try to only calculate the level 0 intersections, then use the AGG on sparse dimensions.
2. Do you really need to do CALC DIM on your dense dimensions? I like to build my dense dimensions using upper level dynamic calc, that way you don't need to do a CalcDim.
3. Have a read of "Optimizing Calculations" in the DBAG http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/epm.111/esb_dbag/frameset.htm?dcaoptcs.htm
Robert

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