This might be a good book if you're completely new to SSAS:

I don't know what other people around here think but I thought that it was a pretty easy read...

To open up Profiler you would normally go: Start > Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 2005 > Performance Tools > SQL Server Profiler.

To Open up Performance Monitor (Which is where...

The best hardware solution that I have implemented lately was to just double the amount of RAM. It was cheap, took only minutes and quadrupled our performance.

After that I...