Definitely use Linux.
RAM needed - create a translation system from your training data and
binarize the models. Add up the sizes of the binary files + (1 or 2GB) and
you'll have a figure for the RAM you need. eg. if your models are
$ ll -h phrase-table.2.pruned100.NoEnc.minphr
I know this is an "it depends" question, but what are the hardware
requirements to run a typical translation service and what kind of
throughput can I expect? Or maybe what is the range? My customer prefers
either using either SUSE Linux or Windows Server for an OS. For instance,
if I'd like to be