[neurohdmi]

If you're lucky, the system you're trying to simulate has good in-vivo recordings. That way you can compare the in-silco models directly to the real ones using either firing rates, LFPs, or other neuronal dynamic. Unfortunately, most of the time that isn't the case.

Trying to simulate a 3000 cells and 500K connections of the fly brain is not a computational problem, it's a knowledge one. If you can find functional properties to build a spiking/rates model, and data to compare it too; then it would be feasible (although a lot of work) to build and run simulations on the model. But without that extra info, and only using the physical connectome, there would be very little reason to try to do so.