diff --git a/.github/assets/hive/run_simulator.sh b/.github/assets/hive/run_simulator.sh
index cb4d8110df..45a3184da3 100755
--- a/.github/assets/hive/run_simulator.sh
+++ b/.github/assets/hive/run_simulator.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ sim="${1}"
 limit="${2}"
 
 run_hive() {
-    hive --sim "${sim}" --sim.limit "${limit}" --sim.parallelism 8 --client reth 2>&1 | tee /tmp/log || true
+    hive --sim "${sim}" --sim.limit "${limit}" --sim.parallelism 16 --client reth 2>&1 | tee /tmp/log || true
 }
 
 check_log() {
diff --git a/.github/workflows/hive.yml b/.github/workflows/hive.yml
index 22ccc82397..d9fc6dd1ec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/hive.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/hive.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
   prepare-hive:
     if: github.repository == 'paradigmxyz/reth'
     timeout-minutes: 45
-    runs-on: depot-ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: depot-ubuntu-latest-16
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: Checkout hive tests
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ jobs:
       - prepare-reth
       - prepare-hive
     name: run ${{ matrix.scenario.sim }}${{ matrix.scenario.limit && format(' - {0}', matrix.scenario.limit) }}
-    runs-on: depot-ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: depot-ubuntu-latest-16
     permissions:
       issues: write
     steps: