Short story by
Arthur C. Clarke in which a group of
monks buys a
computer to calculate all the names of God.
There's even a distributed computing webpage which proposes this project: "In the same vein as the RC5 and DESII challenges, we will attempt to harness the idle computing power of the world to find the 9 billion names of God and bring about the destruction of the universe through the completion of man's ultimate destiny."