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As a result , the U.S. escaped lightly , with just a few thousand computers hit . In a network consisting of several thousands computers , the occurrence of faults is unavoidable . They focused their attention on an electron flood , not a small piece of software executing on a few thousand computers . Suffice to say for the moment that it is a computer network of several thousand computers , with more than a quarter of a million participants . Though the bug occurs in only one out of thousand computers , it allows Web sites to obtain e-mail addresses , passwords , and other sensitive information from affected browsers . " Grid computing requires the use of software that can divide and farm out pieces of a program to as many as several thousand computers . Robert Morris , a Cornell University student , was convicted of unleashing a " worm " program that effectively disabled several thousand computers connected to the Internet . Instead , Noever - working together with Dr. Subbiah Baskaran , a visiting scientist from the University of Vienna Institute for Molecular Biotechnology , and Helen Matsos of NASA / Marshall - plans to borrow a few thousand computers to build what might be called the first D'Arcy Machine , a computer dedicated to classifying images for tell-tale biological shapes . The screensavers for many of the thousand computers in the school are individual pictures of students and faculty members showing their favorite books . What was once a national network with a few thousand computers is now part of a global community with several million systems .