Dark Mists MUD Imms and Players Team at United Devices

What's all this, then? Well, back in 2001 (summer of), when we were still living the good life and the terrorist war hadn't hit home quite so badly, Drithentir said something about this website, where people could loan their computer time to help fight cancer. A few of us looked at it... I joined up and on 8/7/2001 started the team of Dark Mists MUD Imms and Players to unite those of us who play Dark Mists with this United Devices group to help find a cure for cancer...

A lot of us are touched in one way or another by cancer... Some of us know people who have fought it and lived... others of us have lost family and friends to it... Back in 2001, United Devices offered prizes for the amount of points earned for computer time, but that didn't really matter to me... the important thing, to me, was to be of some use in the fight against cancer... not just throwing money at it and hoping it would go away... but putting my machine to use while I wasn't using all of it.

So, as of right now (5/8/2004) there are 7 members. We started with 5 in 2001, and gained 2 more in 2003. Back in 2001 at the time of the anthrax scare, we were diverted in our cancer mission to deal with anthrax, and finding a cure for that took relatively little time using the 'super computer' which consists of the thousands, or maybe millions, of machines which are tapped for their cpu time in solving these problems.

Anyone from Dark Mists wishing to help fight cancer and some other diseases as may be found necessary to cure in a big hurry is welcome to join our team. For more information about United Devices and the work we do, see http://www.grid.org/about/



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