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Things the service needs to explain before I'd consider buying it: Similar technology already exists in the form of Sage [1]. How is this different or better?

by csense 14y ago

Things the service needs to explain before I'd consider buying it: Similar technology already exists in the form of Sage [1]. How is this different or better? From a business standpoint, it's great to host the running code server-side: You can measure usage and charge heavy users, and you have a decent excuse to do so (market expectation that servers resources cost money). But what advantages does this offer that client-side Python in the browser, Skulpt [2], does not? Also, "a notebook...allows you to explore the system that a job sees...You can...Peek around the filesystem...Run non-Python programs..." I really hope each user runs in their own VM for security's sake. [1] http://sagemath.org http://sagemath.org [2] http://www.skulpt.org http://www.skulpt.org

usaar333 14y ago
PiCloud dev here. The IPython notebook feature itself is comparable to other offerings. The advantage of PiCloud's offering is that it is not just a web-based python; it also is the interface to a supercomputer that you can leverage with the cloud library (http://www.picloud.com/platform/ http://www.picloud.com/platform/). As long as you wish to make use of that supercomputer, the notebook allows you to run an interactive interpreter on your already configured PiCloud environment. As far as security goes, every user is run in separate LXC containers. (http://lxc.sourceforge.net/ http://lxc.sourceforge.net/)