EMsieve
A simple sieve/prefactor program for Eisenstein-Mersenne Primes
...See http://oeis.org/A125738, A125739 and [1] for a good introduction. Some easily established properties are: p must be prime; sign is minus for p=+-1 (mod 12), plus otherwise; composites only have factors of form 6kp+1 (integer k).
Related probable primes (3^p -+ 3^((p + 1)/2) + 1)/7 are sieved at the same time. See http://oeis.org/A125743, A125744.
After sieving, the Berrizbeitia-Iskra or a Proth test can be run; this is best implemented with FFT mod (3^3p+1) using GWNUM library. A sample implementation (a patch to the LLR program) is available from Batalov...