Pilar Romero

A model for efficient onboard actualization of an instrumental cyclogram for the mars metnet mission on a public cloud infrastructure

Until now, several heuristics for scheduling parameter sweep applications in environments such as cluster and grid have been introduced. Cloud computing has revolutionized the way applications are executed in distributed environments, as now it is the infrastructure which is adapted to the application and not vice versa. In the present contribution an astronomy application from the next mission to Planet Mars with Finnish-Russian-Spanish flag is ported on to a cloud environment, resulting in a parameter sweep profile. The number of needed executions and the deadline provided required a big quantity of computing resources in a short term and punctual situations. For this reason, we introduce and validate a model for an optimal execution on a public cloud infrastructure by means of time, cost and a metric involving both.

Mathematics for Engineering and Engineering for Mathematics

The Spanish Committee for Mathematics (CEMat) and its Committee for Education decided to participate at this International ICMI Study 20 with a report about the current situation and perspectives of the educational relations and connections between mathematics and industry in Spain.

Logic, Mathematics and Consistency in Literature: Searching for Don Quixote’s Place

In this paper we show how uncertainty can be drastically reduced along our linguistic discourse. In particular, after discussing if the analysis of consistency in literature is a legitimate scientific question, from the linguistic analysis of the master piece of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), “Don Quixote of La Mancha”, we will propose a procedure to check to what extent the linguistic information provided by the author about the walking speed of Don Quixote within La Mancha is consistent. Such a consistency should allow the existence of a region that meets the author’s linguistic description of those trips that involve the place that Cervantes decided not to reveal from the beginning of his book, with the famous sentence “In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind…” Taking into account the distances of those trips involving the unknown village and another well located place, and their estimated walking times obtained from a careful reading of such a novel, we will show that those stories seem to be consistent with a more or less constant walking march per day, still assuring the existence of a region within La Mancha that could be reached during the prescribed time for those trips involving the hidden village.