Where can I download GenSv?

[Stargate38]

On this page, they mention this tool:

GenSv:
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A Generic Siever for finding ultra-sparse forms, such as exceptionally
long Cunningham Chains. Used by Phil Carmody and Paul Jobling for their
longest records.

Can someone please tell me where to download it? I've been looking everywhere.

[VBCurtis]

1. Where is everywhere?
2. If you can't easily find it, say by going to the personal web pages of the two mentioned mathematicians, what makes you think it is publicly available?

[Stargate38]

By everywhere, I mean by googling for it. It has to be made available someday. I want to use it to find record cunningham chains.

[VBCurtis]

What's wrong with NewPGen?

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by Stargate38

On this page, they mention this tool:

GenSv:
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A Generic Siever for finding ultra-sparse forms, such as exceptionally
long Cunningham Chains. Used by Phil Carmody and Paul Jobling for their
longest records.

Can someone please tell me where to download it? I've been looking everywhere.

The info at the page you cite, Cunningham Chain records, indicates that the Carmody/Jobling results are dated February 2002. It also mentions results obtained by one Serge Batalov, from 2014 to as recently as December 2017.

I did find some descriptions by Phil Carmody of how gensv worked, but they were also of 2002 vintage. From Prime puzzle #167 we have

It's a 'generic sieve', it uses a bit of CRT, and then several different bit-blasting techniques to sieve a contiguous block of numbers for patterns in residues. In order to run it, you simply need to generate a file containing the included or excluded residues for each prime. No particular problem is hard-coded into it, which is why it's so 'generic'."

[Batalov]

abandonware