The funny thing is that FLOPS means floating point operations (per second) and SHA256 computations (the core Bitcoin hashing algorithm) take exactly 0 (zero) floating point ops as they consist of integer and bitwise ops only. Besides floating point operations are usually slower than integer and logical ones.
Bottom line is - measuring Bitcoin performance in FLOPS is wrong!
Bottom line is - measuring Bitcoin performance in FLOPS is wrong!
That's true, but nearly every supercomputer in the top list are optimized for floating point operations. That metric is simply an estimate of relative performance, so that the user can, at a glance, compare apples to oranges.