Language Weaver Edge supports multiple operating systems and offers various deployment options, providing unmatched flexibility to meet specific constraints and requirements.
This page provides detailed information about the supported operating systems, deployment options, and features available for each specific configuration. It specifically outlines the features available for regular deployments (physical servers or VMs, Windows or Linux) and Kubernetes deployments (using pre-defined container images based on Ubuntu, provided by Language Weaver).
Features | Bare metal Servers / Virtual Machines | Kubernetes |
Translation | Supported for both Linux and Windows OS | Supported |
Enhanced PDF processing |
Supported for both Linux and Windows OS |
Supported |
Adaptation / Adaptive and Auto-adaptive LPs |
Available for both Linux and Windows OS CPU and GPU training are supported |
Planned to be supported in the 8.6.4 Kubernetes package (Q4 2024) |
Content Insights |
Linux - Preview only This feature in not generally available and is available for POC only |
Not supported |
ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) |
Coming in Edge 8.6.5 (Q4 2024) - Linux only. Windows support may come at a later stage. |
Planned to be supported in the 8.6.5 Kubernetes package (Q1 2025) |
Generative LPs (Auto-Adaptive LPs + MTQE + Auto Post-Edit) | Coming in Edge 8.7 (Q1 2025) | Planned to be supported in the 8.7 Kubernetes package (Q2 2025) |
For more information about supported Operating Systems, please see https://docs.rws.com/1023926/397044/language-weaver-edge-documentation/compatible-operating-systems and also take note of End dates for CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8
For more information about running Language Weaver Edge on Kubernetes, please see Running Language Weaver Edge on Kubernetes
For more information on Adaptation and Language Weaver adaptive capabilities, please see https://www.rws.com/language-weaver/adaptive-capabilities/
For more information on Generative Language Pairs and Auto Post-Edit, please see https://www.rws.com/language-weaver/resources/how-automatic-post-editing-delivers-transformative-results/