The primary purpose of the Grid Workloads Archive is to provide (anonymized) workload traces from grid environments to researchers and to practitioners alike.
h1>Motivation and Goals Large-scale multi-site infrastructures (Grids and Clouds) provide the needed computational support for e-Science. The current situation of the research in resource management in grid and clouds resembles strikingly that of the parallel production environments in the past: surprisingly little is known about the real behavior of the studied systems, and most research results are based on empirically composed workloads. Following the analogy with the parallel production environments' world, the evolution of research in grids and clouds is tightly connected to the existence and the quality of workload traces from real grid and cloud environments. The goal of the Grid Workloads Archive is to provide a virtual meeting place where practitioners and researchers can exchange grid workload traces. To facilitate the exchanges, a standard Grid Workloads Format (GWF) must be provided. Based on GWF, a high-availability, easily accessible, database of existing grid workload traces must be created. For practitioners, tools that convert workload trace formats specific to different platforms into GWF data must be made available. Finally, links with similar efforts from related research communities (e.g., the Parallel Workloads Archive, PWA) must be established.