server upgrade question

["Mag Gam" <magawake@gmail.com>]

At my university we have 10 servers. Each server has 8 cores with 32
GIG of memory running Debian 4.0.  We have to give these servers to a
different department, and our Dean would like to consiladate 10
servers into 5 servers. The new server will have 16 cores with 64 GIG
of memory. Basically a 2:1 type of deal.

Since we are doing a 2:1, should we expect 2:1 performance? For
instance, most of our applications are heavy compute and memory
intensive applications. Would they run at the same speed, better, or
worse with this new setup? My guess is that same?

Oh, yeah will be running 4.0 :-)

TIA