diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fd740c24..d8f33265 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 setup(
     name='pympipool',
     version=versioneer.get_version(),
-    description='pympipool - scale python functions over multiple compute nodes',
+    description='pympipool - Scale serial and MPI-parallel python functions over hundreds of compute nodes all from within a jupyter notebook or serial python process.',
     long_description=Path("README.md").read_text(),
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     url='https://github.com/jan-janssen/pympipool',