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Subject: Issues and Suggestions on Testdrive portal
From: Mangirish Wagle <vaglomangirish@gmail.com>
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Hello Airavata Developers,

I am a student attending Science Gateway Architecture course and would like
to share some of the issues and suggestions that I noticed with the
testdrive portal.

Following are some of the issues/ bugs and improvements:-

*Issues/ bugs:-*

Issue with user registration:- When I registered for the first time for an
account on testdrive portal, the registration page reported success but
when I tried logging in, it reported invalid username or password.
Eventually the password needed to be reset from the backend by the support
team member to grant me access.

Typo in Airavata description on testdrive homepage:- On the Airavata
testdrive homepage (), there is a misplaced space in the first line of
Apache Airavata description: "Apache Airavata is a* softwar e*framework"
(Screenshot attached: testdrive_airavata.png)

*Suggestions:-*

Input file validations for experiments required:- In case of Application
WRF, there are no input file validations, which means one can try uploading
huge sized files through multiple requests and can possibly jam the
bandwidth and network. Also, I just tried launching an experiment with WRF
application by interchanging the input files (Experiment ID:
TestRandom_91e49639-5b92-4740-b2a4-dcacc2dcc2a5). The job failed as
expected but it gave me a segmentation fault with locations of some
locations of core libraries on the stampede supercomputer in the stderr
file (Attached: WRF.stderr) which can be a potential security risk.

Indicate availability of the supercomputing resource:- The portal can
provide the user with info about the availability of the supercomputing
resources indicating if they are ready to accept jobs or down for
maintenance.

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Mangirish Wagle

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itecture course and would like to share some of the issues and suggestions =
that I noticed with the testdrive portal.<br></p><p style=3D"margin:12px 0p=
x">Following are some of the issues/ bugs and improvements:-</p><p style=3D=
"margin:12px 0px"><span style=3D"text-decoration:underline"><strong style=
=3D"font-weight:bold">Issues/ bugs:-</strong></span></p><p style=3D"margin:=
12px 0px"><span style=3D"text-decoration:underline">Issue with user registr=
ation</span>:-
 When I registered for the first time for an account on testdrive=20
portal, the registration page reported success but when I tried logging=20
in, it reported invalid username or password. Eventually the password=20
needed to be reset from the backend by the support team member to grant=20
me access.</p><p style=3D"margin:12px 0px"><span style=3D"text-decoration:u=
nderline">Typo in Airavata description on testdrive homepage</span>:-
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the first line of Apache Airavata description: &quot;Apache Airavata is a<s=
trong style=3D"font-weight:bold"><span class=3D"">=C2=A0</span>softwar e</s=
trong>framework&quot; (Screenshot attached: testdrive_airavata.png)</p><p s=
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style=3D"font-weight:bold">Suggestions:-</strong></span></p><p style=3D"mar=
gin:12px 0px"><span style=3D"text-decoration:underline">Input file validati=
ons for experiments required</span>:-
 In case of Application WRF, there are no input file validations, which=20
means one can try uploading huge sized files through multiple requests=20
and can possibly jam the bandwidth and network. Also, I just tried=20
launching an experiment with WRF application by interchanging the input=20
files (Experiment ID: TestRandom_91e49639-5b92-4740-b2a4-dcacc2dcc2a5).=20
The job failed as expected but it gave me a segmentation fault with=20
locations of some locations of core libraries on the stampede=20
supercomputer in the stderr file (Attached: WRF.stderr) which can be a=20
potential security risk.</p><p style=3D"margin:12px 0px"><span style=3D"tex=
t-decoration:underline">Indicate availability of the supercomputing resourc=
e</span>:-
 The portal can provide the user with info about the availability of the
 supercomputing resources indicating if they are ready to accept jobs or
 down for maintenance.</p><p style=3D"margin:12px 0px">Thank you.</p><p sty=
le=3D"margin:12px 0px">Best Regards,</p><p style=3D"margin:12px 0px">Mangir=
ish Wagle<br></p></div>

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