The German system was run by Regionales Rechenzentrum fuer Niedersachen (RRZN, Regional Computing Center for Lower Saxony) and Lehrgebiet Rechnernetze und Verteilte Systeme (RVS, Institute of Computer Networ ks and Distributed Systems) at the University Hannover. The systems were maintained by Alexander von Berg, RRZN/RVS, Bernd Boeker, RRZN/RVS, and Stephan Olbrich, RRZN/RVS.
Contributions of equipment were received by Siemens Nixdorf (SNI), specifically an RM 600, 2 CPUs R4400 (200 MHz), 512 Megabytes of RAM, and 100 Gigabytes of disk.