https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Embree-and-BVH/m-p/1186463#M847 <P>Hi,</P><P>yes, Embree builds BVH in parallel. You can also choose different tasking systems (TBB, OpenMP, pthread).</P><P>The BVHBuilder API is also multithreaded <A href="https://www.embree.org/api.html#rtcbuildbvh" target="_blank">https://www.embree.org/api.html#rtcbuildbvh</A></P><P>Cheers</P> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:16:33 GMT FlorianR_Intel 2020-06-16T20:16:33Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Embree-and-BVH/m-p/1186462#M846 <P>Hi all, I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. Does Embree offer BVH building in parallel?</P><P>Thanks in advance.</P> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:24:52 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Embree-and-BVH/m-p/1186462#M846 Ravi__Jagannadhan 2020-06-16T17:24:52Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Embree-and-BVH/m-p/1186463#M847 <P>Hi,</P><P>yes, Embree builds BVH in parallel. You can also choose different tasking systems (TBB, OpenMP, pthread).</P><P>The BVHBuilder API is also multithreaded <A href="https://www.embree.org/api.html#rtcbuildbvh" target="_blank">https://www.embree.org/api.html#rtcbuildbvh</A></P><P>Cheers</P> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:16:33 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Embree-Ray-Tracing-Kernels/Embree-and-BVH/m-p/1186463#M847 FlorianR_Intel 2020-06-16T20:16:33Z