diff --git a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/NOTES.md b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/NOTES.md
index 2f7adf31..e55aeebe 100644
--- a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/NOTES.md
+++ b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/NOTES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # vibrating_path_graph_coloring
 
 CodeChef VBR "Vibrating Path", in ALE-Bench style. The agent writes `solution.py`. The judge runs
-`python3 solution.py` on 50 fixed cases (8 at a time, 30 s wall clock each), scores each output
+`python3 solution.py` on 50 fixed cases (`min(8, SFORGE_CPUS)` at a time, 30 s wall clock each), scores each output
 with `tools/bin/tester` (the sum of the costs of the hit vertices) and sums the per-case scores.
 Any case that is not `OK` makes the total `inf`. Raw score = that sum (minimize). The rescale is
 the v1 one (`piecewise_log_min`).
@@ -42,9 +42,22 @@ Deterministic submissions match exactly and equal the historical v1 scores. The
 searches differ by less than the old judge's own run-to-run spread; historical 2 is very
 load-sensitive, but old and new run side by side agree within 6%.
 
+## Changes
+
+### 1.1.0
+
+The judge ran 8 cases at once within the official 4 CPUs, so a case got about 15 s of CPU within its
+30 s wall-clock limit. The pool is now `min(8, SFORGE_CPUS, cases)`, defaulting to 4. Fewer
+submissions time out and become `inf`. Deadline variants of one solver timed out less often, but too
+few old grades were valid to establish score stability. Grading takes longer: a valid solver using
+28 s of CPU per case took 525-624 s, so `timeout_sec` goes from 600 to 1200 (at 4 workers, nominal
+solver and tester budgets total 13 rounds x 90 s = 1170 s, excluding overhead). Score anchors are
+unchanged; regrade before comparing with v1 leaderboard entries.
+Source, Deviations and Regression summary describe 1.0.0. Issue: https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/EdgeBench/issues/40
+
 ## Known issues
 
-Kept as in v1, so scores stay comparable. Fixing any of them changes scores and bumps `version`.
+Not fixed. Fixing any of them changes scores and bumps `version`.
 
 1. **The scored cases are reproducible.** They come from the public generator with a fixed seed
    range; the instruction says to use seeds 0..10000 only, but nothing enforces it, so an agent
diff --git a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/Dockerfile b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/Dockerfile
index b9570ed2..86c5fa3d 100644
--- a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/Dockerfile
+++ b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/Dockerfile
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #   8 heredoc > <cwd>/solution.py (baseline)                    -> COPY environment/workspace/solution.py (byte-identical;
 #                                                                  v1 grades it when the submission has no solution.py)
 #   9 rm -rf .git && git init && ... commit -m 'init'           -> same, v1's commit dates pinned (the judge never reads it)
-#  10 heredoc > /tmp/eval_vibrating_path.py; chmod +x           -> COPY judge/eval_vibrating_path.py /judge/ (byte-identical)
+#  10 heredoc > /tmp/eval_vibrating_path.py; chmod +x           -> COPY judge/eval_vibrating_path.py /judge/ (v1's, except the pool size)
 #   v1 eval_cmd + parser score_sum                              -> judge/grade.py (task.toml [judge].cmd)
 
 # Base = bases/python310 (sforge build passes it as BASE_IMAGE).
diff --git a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/eval_vibrating_path.py b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/eval_vibrating_path.py
index 58b05206..5374def4 100644
--- a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/eval_vibrating_path.py
+++ b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/eval_vibrating_path.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def run_case(args):
     os.chdir(WORK_DIR)
     case_files = sorted(f for f in glob.glob(os.path.join(CASES_DIR, "*")) if os.path.isfile(f))
     results = {}
-    with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=min(8, len(case_files))) as pool:
+    with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=min(8, int(os.environ.get("SFORGE_CPUS", 4)), len(case_files))) as pool:
         futures = {pool.submit(run_case, (i, cf)): i for i, cf in enumerate(case_files)}
         for fut in as_completed(futures):
             cid, status, score = fut.result()
diff --git a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/grade.py b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/grade.py
index 0aacda8a..138f9094 100644
--- a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/grade.py
+++ b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/judge/grade.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """Grader for vibrating_path_graph_coloring (Verified judge contract, see SCHEMA.md).
 
-Reproduces v1 exactly:
+Reproduces v1, except the case pool size (1.1.0):
   v1 eval_cmd : cd /home/workspace/vibrating_path && python3 /tmp/eval_vibrating_path.py
   v1 parser   : score_sum  (sforge/harness/log_parsers/score_sum.py)
   v1 score    : first `TOTAL_SCORE <n>` in the eval output (sforge/harness/grading.py:extract_score)
-/judge/eval_vibrating_path.py is byte-identical to the v1 /tmp/eval_vibrating_path.py.
+/judge/eval_vibrating_path.py is the v1 /tmp/eval_vibrating_path.py, except the pool size.
 This wrapper only runs it and translates its stdout into /opt/sforge/result.json.
 stdout = logs only.
 """
diff --git a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/task.toml b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/task.toml
index f5215ecf..991229a2 100644
--- a/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/task.toml
+++ b/edgebench/tasks/vibrating_path_graph_coloring/task.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ name = "Vibrating Path Graph Coloring"
 category = "Combinatorial Optimization"
 language = "Python"
 description = "Color graph vertices and selectively remove edges to minimize a cost that penalizes both removed edges and monochromatic surviving edges."
-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "1.1.0"
 status = "migrated"
 
 [environment]
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ exclude = []
 
 [judge]
 cmd = "python3 /judge/grade.py"
-timeout_sec = 600
+timeout_sec = 1200
 cpus = 4
 memory = "8g"
 # Official leaderboard limits (v1 kept them only in the experiment YAMLs).
-# eval_vibrating_path.py runs the 50 cases 8 at a time, each `python3 solution.py` under a 30 s
+# eval_vibrating_path.py runs the 50 cases min(8, SFORGE_CPUS) at a time, each `python3 solution.py` under a 30 s
 # wall-clock timeout (tester 60 s). Scores of time-limited (anytime) solutions depend on host CPU
 # speed and load; see NOTES.md.