[quote=paleseptember;189830]Daft question time, how can I tell if it's reached 100 digits? aliquot.exe is currently displaying c88: running 272 ecm curves at B1=25e4. (Previous lines involved c94) (It's now moved onto sieving.)[/quote]
See how it prints lines beginning with something like "1234 . c96 = [big long number] = [big long number's factorization]"? The "c96" means that the sequence is at 96 digits. (in case you're not familiar with the terminology, cxx means a composite with xx digits, prpxx means a PRP with xx digits, and pxx means a prime with xx digits) When that reaches "c100", the sequence has reached 100 digits.
[quote=paleseptember;189830]Annnnd, once it's reached the required number of digits, how does one release it? I'm assuming some data needs to be submitted somewhere.[/quote]
Yep, it does. Use Syd's database, [URL="http://factordb.com/search.php"]factordb.com[/URL]. Here's the URL for its entry for your sequence: [URL]http://factordb.com/search.php?se=1&aq=549594[/URL]
To submit your data, go to the "Report factors" page (link in the nav bar at the top), put your file (alq_549594.elf in the aliqueit directory) in the first spot there for files, and click Send Files. Within about a minute, it should finish processing the new factors, and when you go to the page for your sequence, you'll see where it is.

(preferably, you should crunch the sequence until the composite you're on finishes ECM)
There is a list of drivers and guides at [URL]http://www.mersennewiki.org/index.php/Aliquot_Sequences[/URL]

To let everyone here know you've released it, post in this thread for work from this subproject, or the Released Sequences thread (it's a sticky) for other work (like anything over 100 digits or sequences below 500k).

If you have wget then you can use:
aliqueit -s 0 <seq number>

This submits it to the database.
So this is my procedure (didn't include reserving number):

[ get latest data from db for <number1> in text format and put in alq_<number1>.elf ]
aliqueit -p <number1>
aliqueit -s 0 <number1>
[ check db for <number1>, run quick ecm on final term ]
[ report released in thread]
[ get latest data from db for <number2> in text format and put in alq_<number2>.elf ]
aliqueit -p <number2>
aliqueit -s 0 <number2>
[ check db for <number2>, run quick ecm on final term ]
[ report released in thread]
etc.

Since I have 2 processors, I usually run 2 at once in different command prompts.

Reserving 548088, 548688, 548964

543000 done

Reserving 546642

[URL="http://factordb.com/search.php?se=1&aq=546120&action=last20&fr=&to="]546120[/URL] merges at i=1645 with 334034

543432 done

549594 released. Hit a peak of c104 a few times.

Edit. (Just checked, last line is 2 * c102, had got it down from 2^6 in the last few lines. Should I keep pushing it to see if it collapses?)

[quote=paleseptember;189899]549594 released. Hit a peak of c104 a few times.

Edit. (Just checked, last line is 2 * c102, had got it down from 2^6 in the last few lines. Should I keep pushing it to see if it collapses?)[/quote]
Yes. If you've got the downdriver, (2^1*3^0 a.k.a. just 2) you want to keep running the sequence.

Re-reserving 549594 -- let's see if it behaves nicely now :)

544608 and 546642 Done

Reserving 547044, 547316