# The distribute decorator, explained

What @eugo.hpc.distribute actually changes about a function, and why the call site stays clean.

Source: https://university.eugo.io/videos/the-distribute-decorator

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- Level: Intermediate
- Duration: 6m
- Topics: sdk-api, distributed-compute
- Status: not yet recorded — the transcript below covers the same material

## What this video covers

Decorating a function with eugo.hpc.distribute changes what calling it does. Instead of running the body immediately and returning a value, the call schedules the work somewhere on the cluster and returns a future: a handle to a result that does not exist yet. Your code keeps running. This is why the decorator matters at the definition site rather than every call site: the calls themselves look like ordinary Python.