Why are you measuring hashes/s in FLOPS?
I assume it's because bitcoinwatch shows TeraFLOP/s (as well as Gigahashs/s).
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I get about half that assuming vast majority of hashrate is ATI 5xxx GPUs.
3Thps = about 8300 5870s = about 22.5PFLOPS peak single precision, 4.5PFLOPS peak double precision.
3Thps = about 8300 5870s = about 22.5PFLOPS peak single precision, 4.5PFLOPS peak double precision.
Integer Operations and Floating Point Operations are not comparable.
Of course... but then the whole hash/sec on Bitcoin Watch is an estimate anyway...
So, when you get down to it, all these numbers are meaningless.
However, knowing a rough ballpark of a FLOPs rate *is* interesting, because it does help you think in scale of the TOP 500.
But you can't actually assume any kind of estimate of how many FLOPs our network is. If I can do 2 Integer operations in one clock but only Floating Point operation per clock, you can't just say my 8 million integer operations per second are the equivalent of 8MFLOPS. Some hardware can even do 4 Integer operations in the same time it takes to do one single Floating Point operation.
Edit: For hashing, the proper network computational power unit is MIPS instead of FLOPS.
Integer Operations and Floating Point Operations are not comparable.
Of course... but then the whole hash/sec on Bitcoin Watch is an estimate anyway...
So, when you get down to it, all these numbers are meaningless.
However, knowing a rough ballpark of a FLOPs rate *is* interesting, because it does help you think in scale of the TOP 500.
Why are you measuring hashes/s in FLOPS?
because hashes/sec is meaning outside of Bitcoin. If we want to know how big the network is versus a super computer, what else would you measure it in?
Integer Operations and Floating Point Operations are not comparable.
Why are you measuring hashes/s in FLOPS?
because hashes/sec is meaning outside of Bitcoin. If we want to know how big the network is versus a super computer, what else would you measure it in?
Why are you measuring hashes/s in FLOPS?
I assume it's because bitcoinwatch shows TeraFLOP/s (as well as Gigahashs/s).So, Skynet next?
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Why are you measuring hashes/s in FLOPS?
I assume it's because bitcoinwatch shows TeraFLOP/s (as well as Gigahashs/s). 
What else would you measure it in?
... Hashes per second? 1 FLOP is Float Operation, and there are many float operations per hash, so it's kind of a misleading unit of measurement when talking about network performance.
Why are you measuring hashes/s in FLOPS?
What else would you measure it in?
Why are you measuring hashes/s in FLOPS?
So, Skynet next?
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