Allocation of resources for highly concurrent computing system and highly concurrent computing equipment

An enterprise data warehouse or business intelligence system having a plurality of processors and memory resources. The system includes at least a database server (112), a workload management system (122), a query compiler, and a query executor. The database server (112) configured to receive a database query from an application (104) at a database client system (102). The query compiler configured to prepare the execution plan for the query and compute the number of executive server processes (ESPs) in each ESP layer of the query. The workload management system (122) is configured to generate an affinity value, and the query executor is configured to execute the query. As disclosed herein, placement of the executive server process layers of the query onto processors of the computing system is determined using the affinity value. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.