Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method, a system, and a computer-readable storage-medium embodiments of automatic elastic CPU for a physical verification job. An embodiment includes generating multiple commands for a physical verification job of a design. The multiple commands are related by a dependency graph. The embodiment further includes allocating an initial amount of computing resources to execute the multiple commands, queuing a subset of the multiple commands for execution based on the dependency graph, adding an estimated amount of computing resources to the initial amount based on the number of the queued subset of commands and an estimated time to complete the queued subset of commands, and releasing a portion of the estimated amount of computing resources in response to the portion of the estimated amount of computing resources being idle for an amount of time greater than a target time.