Other Considerations

When assigning cores for EMS use, ensure that the Operating System does not schedule those cores for other processes.
Assign cores on the same die if possible. This reduces cache sharing between dies. High levels of cache sharing between dies reduces memory performance.
Hyper-threads are not real cores. Disable hyper-threading if possible. Do not assign cores to the EMS server such that it sets affinity for two "cores" that are actually sharing the same physical core by hyper-threading.