Handling Global Variables

• Global variables: spans whole domain

  • Field variables are usually shared

• Synchronization required to update shared variables

  • ATOMIC
  • CRITICAL

C$OMP ATOMIC

p(i) = p(i) + plocal

usually better than

C$OMP CRITICAL

p(i) = p(i) + plocal

C$OMP END CRITICAL

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