(attn: Rant) Clusters and flourinert

Ya, know... I've been thinking... perhaps flourinert and submerged boxes do work... put it's geekish joy at best, what about, this as an option to compete on the supercomps market?

Let's say a large tank, and 8 boxes running at 5 Ghz each, that would justify the gear (pumps, external cooling, etc.)...

Anyone thought of that? Also MFLOPS-wise? Would be great for low-budget research e.g. (or boosting your seti@home scores)

hahah are you aware of what flourinert costs? I'm pretty sure its upwards of 200 dollars a gallon

Last time I checked it was 500 a gallon and thats for the cheap stuff. 3m's patent might have expired though but I'd imagine it is prohibitively costly to manufacture, and therefore the competition is probably nonexistant.