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Story Identification: Computer destroys itself to create a new universe

I am looking for the story, where a computer/AI lacks new imputs and so it decides to destroy itself to create a new universe (akin to the Big Bang).

Every particle of the computer becomes part of this new universe and through this the computer experiences everything there is to experience - from forming stars and planets to evolution of humans and living their lives. Finally, the universe ends in kind of "Big Crunch" and the computer reforms itself with all the new data to process.

I am not looking for Asimov's "The Last Question" and google failed me so far.

Edit: I haven't unfortunately read the story (I am a librarian, who was tasked to find it out by a reader). The reader thinks, the author might have been one of the classics (Asimov, Clark or Bradbury), but I haven't been able to find anything in any list of their short stories, nor in lists of stories of other classics, like Lem or Strugatsky brothers.

I am not sure about the language - I think it was probably english from what I was told (might have been translated).