I think you can adapt this to work with parfor, but it's going to be a little bit of a stretch. Your variable z_new can be considered to be a parfor reduction variable. Normally, simple "reduction variables" are fine for computing a maximum value. Consider the simplest case I can think of:
largest = -Inf;
parfor i = 1:10
newValue = rand();
largest = max(newValue, largest);
end
This looks slightly different to your example in a couple of ways: firstly, there's no indexing into largest - we'll deal with that later; secondly - I've used max rather than if to convince parfor that largest is indeed a reduction variable.
So, next we need to deal with the indexing. This is a bit more complicated. We can do this like so:
largest = -Inf(1, 3); % Starting point
parfor i = 1:10
% Allocate an update for this iteration of the parfor loop
update = -Inf(size(largest));
for j = 1:3
% Fill out an element of 'update'
update(j) = rand();
end
% Finally, apply the update all at once
largest = max(largest, update);
end
The trick here is to create a single update array that we can use with a single "reduction" operation max. In your case, you'll need to allocate your equivalent of update just ahead of the loops over ii and jj and then apply it just after those loops.
