Xgrid@stanford... What better widget for a Dashboard than a speedometer? This one is very special, though. It will allow you to monitor the size and speed of a large cluster of Macs connected via Xgrid to perform large calculations on biochemical models, a project called Xgrid@Stanford. You don’t even have to join to see it all. How many GHz right now? How many computers working? How many processors churning numbers? All of this laid out in a gorgeous design brought to you by the makers of Tigergotchi and Pianochords, two recent hits on the Apple widget list.

If all computers around the world could join hands…