"metacomputer" meaning in English

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          "text": "The Polder metacomputer initiative is an ambitious project that aims to provide an experimental framework for metacomputer design tradeoffs and gradually build a metacomputer environment that organizes heterogeneous distributed resources into one single computer environment with a unified access.",
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