Editing Itanium (section)

== Supercomputers and high-performance computing ==
An Itanium-based computer first appeared on the list of the [[TOP500]] [[supercomputer]]s in November 2001.<ref name="Thunder"/> The best position ever achieved by an ''Itanium&nbsp;2'' based system in the list was No. 2, achieved in June 2004, when [[Thunder (supercomputer)|Thunder]] ([[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]]) entered the list with an Rmax of 19.94 Teraflops. In November 2004, [[Columbia (supercomputer)|Columbia]] entered the list at No. 2 with 51.8 Teraflops, and there was at least one Itanium-based computer in the top 10 from then until June 2007. The peak number of Itanium-based machines on the list occurred in the November 2004 list, at 84 systems (16.8%); by June 2012, this had dropped to one system (0.2%),<ref>{{cite web
 |url        = https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/
 |title      = Processor Generation / Itanium&nbsp;2 Montecito
 |access-date = June 6, 2022
 |work       = [[TOP500]] web site
}} Select "June 2012" and "Processor Generation"</ref> and no Itanium system remained on the list in November 2012.