So, Skynet next?

What else would you measure it in?

I assume it's because bitcoinwatch shows TeraFLOP/s (as well as Gigahashs/s).

What does that even mean?  There is no floating point in hashing.

Integer Operations and Floating Point Operations are not comparable.

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.

It means exactly what I said: that bitcoinwatch displays TeraFLOP/s as well as Gigahashs/s. I have no idea why; you'd need to ask them.