Estimate FLOPS

[Hou5e]

Add reporting FLOPS (both native and x86 equivalent) for more accurate supercomputing reporting, and for benchmarking purposes.
(This enhancement request was from someone on Discord)

FLOPS are only estimated here: https://stats.foldingathome.org/os
and described here: https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/flops

Obviously, if it's going to require more FLOPS to compute FLOPS than the WU uses, then it's probably not worth it. But, there should be a way to periodically take a sample of FLOPS during computing each WU, to get a more accurate estimate than what is currently shown on the website.

It might be interesting to see a utilization comparison for making coding improvements for:
Average FLOPS the hardware was capable of, versus average FLOPS actually used for the FAH WU.

Many websites use FLOPS (not FAH points) for a more apples-to-apples comparison for computing performance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_performance_by_orders_of_magnitude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_projects (Sort the performance column on the right)

[jcoffland]

We can only estimate FLOPS but this could be added. The machine itself does not have anyway of telling you how many floating-point instructions a particular process has executed. Also, GPU FLOPS are calculated differently from CPU FLOPS. It's not an simple task. I'd welcome a PR.

[hc970]

We can only estimate FLOPS but this could be added. The machine itself does not have anyway of telling you how many floating-point instructions a particular process has executed. Also, GPU FLOPS are calculated differently from CPU FLOPS. It's not an simple task. I'd welcome a PR.

Understood but even an estimate of the FLOPS either on the GPU or CPU would be useful and appreciated,