diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 02baf5a94d..cd4d9d0c41 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1113,6 +1113,35 @@ files = [
 [package.extras]
 graph = ["objgraph (>=1.7.2)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "distributed"
+version = "2023.12.0"
+description = "Distributed scheduler for Dask"
+category = "main"
+optional = true
+python-versions = ">=3.9"
+files = [
+    {file = "distributed-2023.12.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f573310a39aa0b9c922be01409c4d4e69154b555bef36b65202ad15ac1bf3918"},
+    {file = "distributed-2023.12.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:1f8ef1f1400155f62944d0ca4be6f3051d3652442b446d60b4d6189769b12ba5"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+click = ">=8.0"
+cloudpickle = ">=1.5.0"
+dask = "2023.12.0"
+jinja2 = ">=2.10.3"
+locket = ">=1.0.0"
+msgpack = ">=1.0.0"
+packaging = ">=20.0"
+psutil = ">=5.7.2"
+pyyaml = ">=5.3.1"
+sortedcontainers = ">=2.0.5"
+tblib = ">=1.6.0"
+toolz = ">=0.10.0"
+tornado = ">=6.0.4"
+urllib3 = ">=1.24.3"
+zict = ">=3.0.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "docutils"
 version = "0.19"
@@ -1976,7 +2005,7 @@ testing = ["Django", "attrs", "colorama", "docopt", "pytest (<7.0.0)"]
 name = "jinja2"
 version = "3.1.2"
 description = "A very fast and expressive template engine."
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2384,7 +2413,7 @@ testing = ["coverage", "pyyaml"]
 name = "markupsafe"
 version = "2.1.3"
 description = "Safely add untrusted strings to HTML/XML markup."
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2598,7 +2627,7 @@ tests = ["pytest (>=4.6)"]
 name = "msgpack"
 version = "1.0.7"
 description = "MessagePack serializer"
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -3273,7 +3302,7 @@ files = [
 name = "psutil"
 version = "5.9.6"
 description = "Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python."
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*"
 files = [
@@ -4451,7 +4480,7 @@ files = [
 name = "sortedcontainers"
 version = "2.4.0"
 description = "Sorted Containers -- Sorted List, Sorted Dict, Sorted Set"
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -4738,6 +4767,18 @@ files = [
 [package.extras]
 widechars = ["wcwidth"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tblib"
+version = "3.0.0"
+description = "Traceback serialization library."
+category = "main"
+optional = true
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "tblib-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:80a6c77e59b55e83911e1e607c649836a69c103963c5f28a46cbeef44acf8129"},
+    {file = "tblib-3.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:93622790a0a29e04f0346458face1e144dc4d32f493714c6c3dff82a4adb77e6"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tenacity"
 version = "8.2.3"
@@ -4988,7 +5029,7 @@ files = [
 name = "tornado"
 version = "6.4"
 description = "Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed."
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">= 3.8"
 files = [
@@ -5106,7 +5147,7 @@ files = [
 name = "urllib3"
 version = "2.1.0"
 description = "HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more."
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -5290,6 +5331,18 @@ files = [
     {file = "wrapt-1.14.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:380a85cf89e0e69b7cfbe2ea9f765f004ff419f34194018a6827ac0e3edfed4d"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "zict"
+version = "3.0.0"
+description = "Mutable mapping tools"
+category = "main"
+optional = true
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "zict-3.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:5796e36bd0e0cc8cf0fbc1ace6a68912611c1dbd74750a3f3026b9b9d6a327ae"},
+    {file = "zict-3.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e321e263b6a97aafc0790c3cfb3c04656b7066e6738c37fffcca95d803c9fba5"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zipp"
 version = "3.17.0"
@@ -5307,9 +5360,9 @@ docs = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "rst.link
 testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-ignore-flaky", "pytest-mypy (>=0.9.1)", "pytest-ruff"]
 
 [extras]
-darray = ["dask"]
+darray = ["dask", "distributed"]
 
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.9,<3.12"
-content-hash = "4eb5b01d4121d0c7f55c129c1d0e6350bd6789550ee8d55d0eff9b2c11af5ee1"
+content-hash = "d123606e5143b47e9e50a6c9f32c2d6c082e26b71ef9c94147b62dab6816e5a8"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 02b9ccb970..af17d12a51 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ joblib = "^1.2.0"
 hyperopt = "^0.2.7"
 tabulate = "^0.9.0"
 dask = { version = "^2023.12.0", optional = true }
+distributed = { version = "^2023.12.0", optional = true }
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]
-darray = ["dask"]
+darray = ["dask", "distributed"]
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev]
 optional = true