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

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/)