No. For each vector/matrix operation, PETSc can get its flop count based on number of nonzeros, for example.
--Junchao Zhang On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 8:44 AM Mark Adams via petsc-dev <petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov>> wrote: I am puzzled. I am running AMGx now, and I am getting flop counts/rates. How does that happen? Does PETSc use hardware counters to get flops?