# Launch your first cluster

From an empty notebook to a running cluster and a completed task, including the blocking mistake almost everyone makes on their first fan-out.

Source: https://university.eugo.io/videos/launch-your-first-cluster

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- Level: Beginner
- Duration: 4m
- Topics: eugoide, distributed-compute
- Status: not yet recorded — the transcript below covers the same material

## What this video covers

Open the EugoHPC Manager panel and choose a cluster size. The head node comes up first and coordinates work; compute nodes follow and do it. Once the cluster reports ready, import eugo.hpc in your notebook and decorate a function with the distribute decorator. Calling that function now returns a future rather than a value. Pass the future to eugo.hpc.get to block until the result is ready. That is the whole loop.