CheckDesignFile process

nextflow.config sets all process to run on '128GB,256GB,256GBv1' nodes

process.queue='128GB,256GB,256GBv1'

that means that even the checkdesignfile process needs to wait on a high power process

you can make checkdesignfile bypass that to run on a super by:

process checkdesignfile {
  queue 'super'
...