Essbase 64 bit on Windows 2003 Server: recomm. Hardware for Calcparallel ?

Hi,
1 year ago, we migrated to system 9.3.1 for Hyperion Planning - as usual, this includes Workspace, Financial Reporting, Financial Analysis, SmartView, Shared Services...
everything is running well on acceptable speed and in general 2-3 times faster than our old environment- essbase 7, planning 4 on (HP DL580 G3 windows 2003 32 bit servers, with each 4 Xeon monocores @3 Ghz)
we decided 1 year ago for 3 windows servers, each with 2 Xeon quattro-cores (=8 cores @ 3.0 Ghz)
1st server Financial Reporting + Workspace (Windows Server 2003 SP2, HP Proliant BL460C G1 with 2x Quattrocore Xeon E5450 3.0 Ghz) 8 GB RAM
2nd Server Planning+Shared Services (Windows Server 2003 SP2, HP Proliant BL460C G1 with 2x Quattrocore Xeon E5450 3.0 Ghz) 4 GB RAM (8 GB would have been better)
3rd Server 64 Bit Windows 2003 with Essbase (Windows Server 64 bit SP2, HP Proliant DL380 G5 with 2x Quattrocore Xeon X5450 3.0 Ghz) 16 GB RAM
as our planning application is quiet big and we run a lot consolidation & datacopy at night, we depend on parallel calculation.
We mainly use command calcparallel 4 - but on 64 bit system, calcparallel 7 should be possible as well
We plan now to extend the system for other regions/2nd application
My Question: the new consultant confused me today, that essbase would regard 1 physicial quattrocore processor as 1 core for parallel calculation - that a machine with just 2 physical cores is not a really powerful machine... and that we better think about new hardware- that a quattrocore is just 1 core for essbase analytics - is this true ???
so did we actually choose a weak environment with only 2 (Quattro)-cores) for Essbase ?
Can anybody confirm if there is a difference for essbase between having e.g. 4 Dualcores and 2 Quattrocores ? (Besides the fact, that it will cost more, as we have to lease a bigger Server with more processor-sockets- and that it will cost a lot efforts to get the system changed)
P.S.: EAS console shows 8 cores for the Essbase Server in properties
Applicationlogfile shows: calculating in parallel with [4] threads (we use command calcparallel 4 in businessrule)
- our nightly calculations take between 60 and 120 minutes- if we avoid fragmentation (run dense restructure every 4 weeks) and keep the system clean and lean...

Hi John,
thanks for the helpful link - the long discussion reminded me again, that pure cores and cache is not all, what makes up a good essbase application -
I will test with calcparallel 6 (in comparison to 4) on our 64bit environment - just to see if I can achieve a 10, 20 or 30% improvement...
In addition, I must admit, that 50% of our 1-2 hour calculation is calculated in serial/ not parallel... so I expect an additional 5 to 10 min improvement, not more.
Thank you for now

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