It uses tmpnb (http://lambdaops.com/ipythonjupyter-tmpnb-debuts) to spin up docker instances of a relatively basic IPython demo. I guess they are a bit overloaded right now. Pretty nice gateway drug to show the benefits of IPython to non-technical folks.
It's a tech demo; it'll be more locked down (no network access). The main thing is to tweak the host so the docker containers are routable to the proxy but no external network.
The 24 core Xeons are our (rackspace) OnMetal high memory boxes, you don't actually have 24 cores, docker just pulled that from the host, each container is limited.