We will be updating RAPPORT COI at this time. This update will not affect other RAPPORT applications (Grants, IRB, or Agreements).
Posted on
Jun 10, 2026 - 09:23 EDT
All Research Computing and Data servers and cluster nodes will be patched and rebooted on June 16th, beginning at 09:00.
Discovery cluster nodes will be reserved from 09:00‐1:00.
No jobs will be accepted for which the requested walltime runs into the reservation window.
Public and private head nodes are included in this (Polaris, Andes, etc.)
Posted on
Jun 02, 2026 - 18:07 EDT
We have been working on restructuring the address fields on properties in Planon and are preparing to move these changes up to production early next week.
Currently, the street address of a property is stored on the Street field. We are moving this data to a new field called Street address, and will be using the Street field to store only the street name, and a new field called Building number to store the building number. This change will improve the user experience for sorting and filtering, allowing users to properly search for and sort properties based on Street name. There will be an impact to consumers of the Planon API.
You can preview these changes in our pre-production environment: facilities-pre.dartmouth.edu
If you have any reports that rely on the data from the Street field, please update these reports to use the Street address field.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to CSTS.
Posted on
Jun 10, 2026 - 14:24 EDT
Research Computing and Data will be installing routine firmware and software updates on the Dell PowerScale system which provides network file services to the campus. This includes DartFS, ThayerFS, and others.
These reboots are staggered so that the service never goes down, but any clients connected to a node that is in the process of rebooting obviously need to reconnect to a different node.
NFS clients running Linux do this automatically and seamlessly.
Unfortunately, the SMB protocol does not allow for the same kind of seamless transition to a different node. The actual SMB client behavior depends on the operating system (Mac, Windows, or Linux) and the application using the storage.
In general, Windows systems and applications will recognize that the connection was interrupted and automatically reconnect to a different node after just a few seconds.
Mac and Linux SMB clients will keep trying the same node for longer. After a timeout period, they declare a network error. Some applications will try to restart the connection from scratch and that will work. Most commonly, Mac users can simply reconnect from their saved list of favorite servers.
Please note that if you were actively using any of these file servers during the entire maintenance window you would experience at least one such disconnection and probably several as we cycle through the nodes to reboot them all.
We will post an update here when the work is complete.
Posted on
Jun 12, 2026 - 13:49 EDT