Exactly. It sounds like they picked an ongoing desire from the research community, then grabbed the closest thing that already exists, and promised to bridge the gap.
There is no evidence I can find of any progress towards that though... If they are really capable of doing it, they would only need to present a single working distributed CPU model for MATLAB and they would have money thrown at them. They could even sell such load leveling software to every university. I assume nothing has actually been done yet, mainly because it cannot be done without the blessing of Mathworks.